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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Pipistrel PANTHERA X152
N498LP is a Pipistrel PANTHERA X152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N57Kk LLC, an LLC in Livingston, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated November 20, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- PANTHERA X152 · all PANTHERA X152s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Pipistrel PANTHERA X152 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- PX1520027
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO 540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A62ED8 (octal 51427330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 20, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01424560
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N57Kk LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 22 Suce Creek Trailhead
Livingston, MT 59047-9148
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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
Connections how N498LP links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel PANTHERA X152 17 registered
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,220 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- N57Kk LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Livingston, MT 50 aircraft registered in this town
- Mission Field · LVM
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N498LP, 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 N57Kk LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 29, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for market survey, dated November 20, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PX1520027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N498LP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Crevier Donald L Jr FLIGHTSTAR IISC (serial FS287SC, cancelled January 4, 2018). 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 N498LP. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data