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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pitts S-2S
N1643 is a Pitts S-2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hampton, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 30, 1989.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- S-2S · all S-2Ss 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 Pitts 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
- 3008
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A1034B (octal 50201513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 30, 1989
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00332163
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elias Bernard J
- 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
- 10967 Morning Dove Dr
Hampton, GA 30228-2666
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1643 links to the rest of the register
- Pitts S-2 13 registered
- Pitts 46 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 433 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Hampton, GA 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,790 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Pitts S-2 11 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hmu, failed · 2002-02-01
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The public federal record on N1643, 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 Elias Bernard J, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 30, 1989, 7 years after the 1982 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 3008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1643 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 N1643: Accident on April 1, 1987 at Miami, FL: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 727-295 · operated under 121
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data