{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2024-04-23","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-15","city":"REEDLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"49850","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"PIPISTREL","engine_model":"PEM 60MVLC","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-15","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL LSA S R L","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"06001BQ","mode_s_code":"50302757","mode_s_hex":"A185EF","model":"ALPHA ELECTRO","n_number":"N198AM","name":"CITY OF REEDLEY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N198AM is a Pipistrel ALPHA ELECTRO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to City Of Reedley, a government body in Reedley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated April 23, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Reedley, a government body, certificate issued December 15, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 2024, 7 years after the 2017 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 879 AE 60 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N198AM according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N198AM. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":2,"serial_number":"879 AE 60","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"845 G ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01272844","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N198AM","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2017,"zip":"936542625"}