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Electric and sustainable aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO G2.5
N984TP is a Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO G2.5, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Texas Soaring Bats LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 25, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)
- Model
- TAURUS ELECTRO G2.5
- Serial number
- 167 T ET
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- ADBBB7 (octal 53335667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 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 · RacingFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 25, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01394306
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Soaring Bats 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
- 10907 Rampart St
Houston, TX 77096-6016
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N984TP links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Texas Soaring Bats LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Houston, TX 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N984TP.json.
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The public federal record on N984TP, 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 Texas Soaring Bats LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 26, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 25, 2023, 5 years after the 2018 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 167 T ET for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N984TP 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]
2 NTSB records under N984TP: Accident on August 15, 2026 at Hempstead, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. Accident on February 1, 2024 at Waller, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO G2.5 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pipistrel TAURUS · operated under 091
The failure of both pilots to see and avoid one another while maneuvering, which resulted in a mid-air collision.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data