{"airworthiness_class":"Light sport","airworthiness_date":"2022-10-05","airworthiness_ops":"Airplane","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-10-02","city":"JERSEY CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":1,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-10-02","maker":"Pipistrel","maker_country":"SI","maker_raw":"PIPISTREL D O O","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"05641A7","mode_s_code":"53325122","mode_s_hex":"ADAA52","model":"VIRUS SW 121C","n_number":"N98RR","name":"XU TIANZE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98RR is a Pipistrel VIRUS SW 121C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jersey City, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 5, 2022.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Xu Tianze, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 5, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VSWX121C0107 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N98RR 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N98RR. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"VSWX121C0107","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"505 SUMMIT AVE APT 704","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01377558","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98RR","watchlist_group":"Electric airplane","watchlist_note":"Velis Electro, the first type-certified electric airplane, Slovenia","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2022,"zip":"073064120"}