{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-29","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"","city":"WICHITA","country_code":"US","county_code":"173","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-24","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"05642IQ","mode_s_code":"51163430","mode_s_hex":"A4E718","model":"TAURUS ELECTRO 135","n_number":"N415EA","name":"ELEMENTAL AVIATION LC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ATLANTA","damage":"MINR","date":"1990-06-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL90IA136","probable_cause":"INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE INSPECTION OF THE AIRPLANE WHICH RESULTED IN OPERATION OF THE TIRE WHILE UNDER INFLATED AND ITS SUBSEQUENT FAILURE. A FACTOR IN THE INCIDENT WAS THE INADEQUATE QUALITY CONTROL BY THE TIRE RECAPPING FACILITY WHICH FAILED TO REPAIR A PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED TIRE DEFECT.","registration":"N415EA","state":"GA","summary":"Incident on June 22, 1990 at Atlanta, GA: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N415EA is a Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO 135, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Elemental Aviation Lc, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 29, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Elemental Aviation Lc, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 29, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TEX13500190 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N415EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (serial 47749, cancelled July 3, 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":"1 NTSB record under N415EA: Incident on June 22, 1990 at Atlanta, GA: no injuries, minor 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":"TEX13500190","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"555 N WOODLAWN ST STE 208 BLDG 1","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01522682","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N415EA","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"672083672"}