{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2025-09-11","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2026-08-31","city":"MADISONVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"107","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":"2033-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-31","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"056405O","mode_s_code":"51416105","mode_s_hex":"A61C45","model":"VIRUS SW 128","n_number":"N493LP","name":"KCTCS-MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N493LP is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 128, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kctcs-Madisonville Community College, a government body in Madisonville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 11, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kctcs-Madisonville Community College, a government body, certificate issued August 31, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 11, 2025, 3 years after the 2022 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 VSWX1280090 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N493LP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0040, cancelled October 17, 2017). 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 N493LP. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":2,"serial_number":"VSWX1280090","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2000 COLLEGE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01417197","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N493LP","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"424319185"}