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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pitts S-2S
N1PW is a Pitts S-2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Welkin Aero INC, a corporation in Garden Plain, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 12, 2016.
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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
- 1004
- 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-D4A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A0015C (octal 50000534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2010
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · August 12, 2016
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00430020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welkin Aero INC
- 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
- 1822 Cub Lane Cir
Garden Plain, KS 67050
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1PW 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-D4A5 57 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Welkin Aero INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Garden Plain, KS 17 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Pitts S-2 11 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540-D4A5 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540-D4A5 61 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1PW, 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 Welkin Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 2016, 37 years after the 1979 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 1004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1PW 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 N1PW: Accident on June 3, 2023 at Garden Plain, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Pitts S-2S · operated under 091
The pilot’s inability to maintain directional control during landing roll due to a flat tire.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data