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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pitts 9-260L
N2280 is a Pitts 9-260L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Washington, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 22, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- 9-260L
- Serial number
- 10
- 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 0-435 · 175 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A20111 (octal 50400421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · August 22, 2002
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00231982
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grimm Lawrence S
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 95 Statement St
Washington, PA 15301-3144 - Co-owners
- Walker Robert J
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N2280 links to the rest of the register
- Pitts 46 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-435 88 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Washington, PA 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington County · AFJ
- Pennsylvania 6,182 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N2280, 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 Grimm Lawrence S, a co-owned, certificate issued September 24, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 2002, 34 years after the 1968 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 10 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2280 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco ZGC-7 (serial 4560, cancelled March 3, 1943). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2280: Incident on January 4, 1990 at Madison, FL: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 727-251 · operated under 121
THE FAILURE OF COMPANY SERVICE PERSONNEL TO PROPERLY SERVICE THE AIRPLANE FORWARD LAVATORY.
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