Pipistrel TAURUS
N53PP is a Pipistrel TAURUS, a glider, built in 2022. The FAA's model table marks this aircraft as electric, but its engine record is a Rotax 503 SERIES, a conventional engine, so this site does not count it as electric. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vortex Maritime LLC, an LLC in Chesapeake, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for glider, dated October 2, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- TAURUS · all TAURUSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 182 T 503 LSA
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A6AF67 (octal 51527547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Glider · October 2, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01376071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vortex Maritime LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 300 Woodards Ford Rd
Chesapeake, VA 23322-4349
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N53PP, 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 Vortex Maritime LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for glider, dated October 2, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 182 T 503 LSA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53PP according to the deregistered file. [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 N53PP. 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