Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0
N979DS is a Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Delaware State University, a government body in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 4, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 6:06 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vulcanair S P A
- Model
- VULCANAIR V1.0 · all VULCANAIR V1.0s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1024
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-M1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- ADA570 (octal 53322560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 4, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01307480
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delaware State University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1200 N Dupont Hwy
Dover, DE 19901-2202 - Co-owners
- Aviation Program
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N979DS links to the rest of the register
- Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0 19 registered
- Vulcanair S P A 19 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-M1A 551 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Delaware State University 19 aircraft in the fleet
- Dover, DE 1,042 aircraft registered in this town
- Dover Air Force Base · DOV
- Chandelle Airport · 0N4
- Deldot Helistop · 0N5
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Vulcanair S P A VULCANAIR V1.0 7 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-M1A 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-M1A 128 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Exhaust Pipe, cracked · 2020-02-06
- Where N979DS is now · Last seen Thursday at 6:06 pm.
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The public federal record on N979DS, 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 Delaware State University, a government body, certificate issued December 20, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 4, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N979DS 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]
1 NTSB record under N979DS: Accident on July 22, 2022 at Salisbury, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vulcanair V1 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data