Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128
N880HM is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Florida Institute Of Technology, a corporation in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated March 6, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW 128
- Serial number
- VSWX1280032
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Pipistrel E-811 SERIES · 77 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- AC1E90 (octal 53017220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · March 6, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01345006
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Florida Institute Of Technology
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 150 W University Blvd
Melbourne, FL 32901-6975
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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 N880HM, 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 Florida Institute Of Technology, a corporation, certificate issued June 30, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 6, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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 VSWX1280032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N880HM 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 N880HM. 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