Killough PITTS SPECIAL S-1S
N14JK is a Killough PITTS SPECIAL S-1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Poplar Grove Vintage Wings And Wheels Museum, a corporation in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Killough
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S-1S
- Serial number
- 7978
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A0A129 (octal 50120451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 29, 1986
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00391590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Poplar Grove Vintage Wings And Wheels Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5151 Orth Rd Ste A-1
Poplar Grove, IL 61065
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N14JK, 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 Poplar Grove Vintage Wings And Wheels Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 28, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 1986, 9 years after the 1977 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7978 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14JK 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]
1 NTSB record under N14JK: Accident on October 6, 1985 at Hartford, WI: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Todd PITTS · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data