Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2S
N15PU is a Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to North Valley Aircraft INC, a corporation in Valley City, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 7, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2S
- Serial number
- 3015
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540-D4A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A0C92E (octal 50144456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 7, 2019
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00744761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Valley Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 11647 33Rd St SE
Valley City, ND 58072-9401
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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 N15PU, 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 North Valley Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 2019, 30 years after the 1989 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 3015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15PU 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 N15PU: Accident on November 24, 2012 at Grain Valley, MO: no injuries, substantial 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: Christen Industries INC PITTS S-2S · operated under 091
The pilot's improper landing flare, which led to a bounced landing and subsequent loss of control.
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