{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-10-11","airworthiness_ops":"Operating light-sport previously certificated","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2024-09-27","city":"SAN JOSE","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"49851","engine_horsepower":77,"engine_maker":"PIPISTREL","engine_model":"E-811 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-09-27","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"06001DG","mode_s_code":"50753664","mode_s_hex":"A3D7B4","model":"VIRUS SW 128","n_number":"N347EA","name":"HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE USA INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N347EA is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Honda Research Institute USA INC, a corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated October 11, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Honda Research Institute USA INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 27, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 11, 2024, 3 years after the 2021 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 VSWX1280029 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N347EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20604797, cancelled July 9, 2001). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N347EA. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"VSWX1280029","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"70 RIO ROBLES","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01467702","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N347EA","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"951341806"}