{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2024-04-08","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GRANADA HILLS","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55592","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-21","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"056391M","mode_s_code":"50126752","mode_s_hex":"A0ADEA","model":"ALPHA TRAINER","n_number":"N143AW","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Salinas","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-04-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA173","probable_cause":"The flight instructor\u2019s inadequate preflight inspection which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.","registration":"N143AW","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 18, 2026 at Salinas, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N143AW is a Pipistrel ALPHA TRAINER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granada Hills, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated April 8, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 2024, 4 years after the 2020 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1030 AT 912 LSA for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N143AW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182K (serial 18258305, cancelled October 18, 2012). 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":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N143AW: Accident on April 18, 2026 at Salinas, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1030 AT 912 LSA","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"17608 TROSA ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01442876","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N143AW","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2020,"zip":"913441041"}