{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-05-25","airworthiness_ops":"Racing","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2023-04-26","city":"HOUSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-26","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"05641QV","mode_s_code":"53335667","mode_s_hex":"ADBBB7","model":"TAURUS ELECTRO G2.5","n_number":"N984TP","name":"TEXAS SOARING BATS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Waller","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-02-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN24LA110","probable_cause":"The failure of both pilots to see and avoid one another while maneuvering, which resulted in a mid-air collision.","registration":"N984TP","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 1, 2024 at Waller, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N984TP is a Pipistrel TAURUS ELECTRO G2.5, a glider powered by electric motors, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Texas Soaring Bats LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated May 25, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Texas Soaring Bats LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 26, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 25, 2023, 5 years after the 2018 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 167 T ET for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N984TP according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N984TP: Accident on February 1, 2024 at Waller, TX: no 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"167 T ET","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10907 RAMPART ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01394306","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N984TP","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2018,"zip":"770966016"}