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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aeriane SWIFT 3
N931WA is an Aeriane SWIFT 3, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Whisper Aero INC, a corporation in Crossville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition, dated September 25, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeriane
- Model
- SWIFT 3
- Serial number
- 161
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- ElectricFAA type of engine code 10 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Geiger HPD12 · 15 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ACEB55 (octal 53165525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2026
- 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 · Research and development; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 13 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 25, 2026
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01513701
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whisper Aero INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 199 Henry St
Crossville, TN 38555-4470
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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 N931WA links to the rest of the register
- Aeriane 1 aircraft on the register
- Geiger Engineering HPD12 1 aircraft with this engine series · 15 hp
- Whisper Aero INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Crossville, TN 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Crossville Meml-Whitson Field · CSV
- Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N931WA.json.
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The public federal record on N931WA, 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 Whisper Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 2026, 4 years after the 2022 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 161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N931WA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-3U3 (serial 28733, cancelled March 31, 1999). 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 N931WA. 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