{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-10-24","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2024-10-16","city":"BELLEVUE","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"49852","engine_horsepower":54,"engine_maker":"PIPISTREL","engine_model":"ELECTRO 40/30","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-10-16","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"05642IQ","mode_s_code":"50757442","mode_s_hex":"A3DF22","model":"TAURUS ELECTRO 135","n_number":"N349EA","name":"GREAT PISTONS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Parker City","damage":"SUBS","date":"2015-01-04","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN15LA098","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s\u00a0loss of\u00a0airplane control while troubleshooting an engine issue in instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in impact with trees and terrain.","registration":"N349EA","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on January 4, 2015 at Parker City, IN: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N349EA is a Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO 135, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Great Pistons LLC, an LLC in Bellevue, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 24, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Great Pistons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 24, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TEX13500189 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N349EA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company A36 (serial E-3549, cancelled January 8, 2016); Cessna 208B (serial 208B0243, cancelled November 6, 1997). 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 N349EA: Accident on January 4, 2015 at Parker City, IN: serious 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"TEX13500189","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"155 108TH AVE NE STE 310","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01473955","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N349EA","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"980045901"}