Pipistrel VIRUS SW
N678WX is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Scottsdale, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 23, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)
- Model
- VIRUS SW · all VIRUS SWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 395VSW100
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A8FB7A (octal 52175572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 23, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01139557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bodo Diehn
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5042 N 81St St
Scottsdale, AZ 85250-7324
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N678WX, 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 Bodo Diehn, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2014, 3 years after the 2011 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 395VSW100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N678WX 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 N678WX. 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