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Pipistrel Virus

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2026
20 July

ReleaseNew Pipistrel Voyager brings next generation training capabilities and access to flight schools

2025
1 December

ReleasePipistrel achieves historic type certification in Colombia

12 November

ReleasePipistrel Velis Electro, Explorer, Velis Club aircraft earn type certificate validation from Transport Canada

2024
17 December

ReleaseNLR and zepp.solutions join forces to fly on liquid hydrogen

2022
18 April

ReleaseTextron completes acquisition of Pipistrel

26 January The Pipistrel SW 121A Explorer.

Pipistrel adds Explorer to trainer model range

This trainer has an autopilot, dual touch-screen glass cockpit, dual COM, ADS-B In & Out, haptic stall-warning, full-airframe ballistic parachute rescue system, type-certified hydraulic constant-speed propeller and airbrakes.

2020
19 July

ReleaseFirst customer's Velis Electro rolls out of assembly line

11 June The Pipistrel Velis Electro receives type certification from EASA.

Pipistrel earns first EASA type certificate for electric aeroplane

Customers in seven countries can now expect to be flying Velis Electro light aircraft by the end of 2020, powered by battery and certificated by EASA in a process that took less than three years.

2019
8 April

ReleasePipistrel to receive world's first microlight certification according to new German 600kg technical LTFUL 2018 rules

2016
16 June

ReleasePipistrel d.o.o. Ajdovscina has produced aircraft number 800 from the Sinus/Virus family

19 April

ReleaseFirst Pipistrel aircraft certified by EASA

2014
25 March

ReleaseGarmin Team X unveils G3X Touch

2013
4 March

ReleasePipistrel selects Dynon Avionics as standard equipment for 2013 lineup

2012
9 March

ReleaseThe double NASA Challenge winner Pipistrel Virus SW now with Rotax 912 iS