John J Funsch PITTS SPECIAL
N1229 is a John J Funsch PITTS SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Maidens, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John J Funsch
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 1112
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A05EB3 (octal 50057263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 30, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00710420
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fritzinger Thomas A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2565 Fairground Rd
Maidens, VA 23102-2207
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1229, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Fritzinger Thomas A, an individual, certificate issued November 18, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1112 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1229 according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1229. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data