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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C
N15TA is an Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Danville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 29, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- S-2C · all S-2Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Pitts: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 6045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A0C980 (octal 50144600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 29, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583684
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Basham Kristina
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4068 Sugar Maple Dr
Danville, CA 94506-4642
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N15TA links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 57 registered
- Aviat Aircraft Inc 971 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-540 series 434 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Danville, CA 57 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 14 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N15TA, 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 Basham Kristina, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 29, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15TA 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 N15TA: Accident on October 20, 2013 at Livermore, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat S2 · operated under 091
Failure of the pilots of the Pitts airplane to maneuver the airplane as necessary to observe the taxi route and avoid the Cessna airplane ahead. Contributing to the accident was the local controller's failure to provide the required warning of traffic ahead to the pilots of the Pitts airplane when clearing the Pitts to taxi.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data