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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121C
N98RR is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jersey City, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 5, 2022.
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Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 4:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pipistrel (Slovenia)FAA spelling: PIPISTREL D O O
- Model
- VIRUS SW 121C
- Serial number
- VSWX121C0107
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ADAA52 (octal 53325122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 5, 2022
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01377558
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Xu Tianze
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 505 Summit Ave Apt 704
Jersey City, NJ 07306-4120
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N98RR links to the rest of the register
- Pipistrel 398 aircraft on the register
- Jersey City, NJ 20 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,017 aircraft registered
- Where N98RR is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N98RR, 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 Xu Tianze, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 5, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX121C0107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98RR 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 N98RR. 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 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