{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2024-07-10","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2024-07-02","city":"DAYTONA BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"127","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-30"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"49851","engine_horsepower":77,"engine_maker":"PIPISTREL","engine_model":"E-811 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-07-02","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"06001DG","mode_s_code":"50012220","mode_s_hex":"A01490","model":"VIRUS SW 128","n_number":"N104LF","name":"EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N104LF is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a corporation in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 10, 2024. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a corporation, certificate issued July 2, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated July 10, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSW128F0104 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N104LF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Quest Aircraft Company Llc KODIAK 100 (serial 100-0069, cancelled December 11, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N104LF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"VSW128F0104","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1 AEROSPACE BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01459912","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N104LF","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"321143910"}