Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128
N493LP is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kctcs-Madisonville Community College, a government body in Madisonville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 11, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW 128
- Serial number
- VSWX1280090
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel E-811 SERIES · 77 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A61C45 (octal 51416105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · September 11, 2025
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01417197
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kctcs-Madisonville Community College
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2000 College Dr
Madisonville, KY 42431-9185
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N493LP, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Kctcs-Madisonville Community College, a government body, certificate issued August 31, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 11, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX1280090 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N493LP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0040, cancelled October 17, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N493LP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data