No free picture of N78PV or its model is known to the site yet; spotters' pictures may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Pipistrel VIRUS
N78PV is a Pipistrel VIRUS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Reps R1 Drive Unit CO LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 30, 2014.
Pipistrel: Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia
Where is it now checking the live feed…
Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O AJDOVSCINA
- Model
- VIRUS
- Serial number
- 456 VN 912
- 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 · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA8F86 (octal 52507606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 30, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01129942
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reps R1 Drive Unit CO 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
- C/O Deer Creek Corporate Services
PO Box 1840
Helena, MT 59624-1840
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N78PV links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL 134 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Reps R1 Drive Unit CO LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Helena, MT 533 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N78PV.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78PV, 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 Reps R1 Drive Unit CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 10, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 456 VN 912 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78PV 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 N78PV. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data