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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Cole PITTS SPECIAL S-1S
N17GC is a Cole PITTS SPECIAL S-1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Danville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 28, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cole
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S-1S
- Serial number
- 409-H
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A1176D (octal 50213555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 28, 1980
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00742250
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Michael D
- 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
- 3204 Old Richmond Rd
Danville, VA 24540-0522
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N17GC links to the rest of the register
- Cole 2 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Danville, VA 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Danville Regional · DAN
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N17GC, 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 Davis Michael D, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2006, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 1980, 6 years after the 1974 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 409-H for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17GC 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 N17GC. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data