{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-02-27","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-22","city":"CROSSVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"31002","engine_horsepower":15,"engine_maker":"GEIGER","engine_model":"HPD12","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-17","maker":"Aeriane","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AERIANE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05643MO","mode_s_code":"53165525","mode_s_hex":"ACEB55","model":"SWIFT 3","n_number":"N931WA","name":"WHISPER AERO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N931WA is an Aeriane SWIFT 3, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Whisper Aero INC, a corporation in Crossville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 27, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Whisper Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 27, 2026, 4 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 161 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N931WA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-3U3 (serial 28733, cancelled March 31, 1999). 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 N931WA. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"161","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"199 HENRY ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01513701","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N931WA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"385554470"}