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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Pitts Special BMP
N17PB is a Pitts Special BMP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 31, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts Special
- Model
- BMP
- Serial number
- 7
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A1181B (octal 50214033)
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 13, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 13, 2026
- 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 31, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00922260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Port Townsend Aero Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 105 Airport Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9716
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N17PB links to the rest of the register
- Pitts Special 50 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,313 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Port Townsend Aero Museum 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Port Townsend, WA 120 aircraft registered in this town
- Jefferson County International · 0S9
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N17PB.json.
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The public federal record on N17PB, 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 Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 13, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 31, 2010, 40 years after the 1970 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 7 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17PB 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 N17PB. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data