Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B
N260L is a Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Montana Wingnuts LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 10, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A27FF7 (octal 50477767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 10, 1989
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00294671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Montana Wingnuts LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N260L, 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 Montana Wingnuts LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 10, 2005, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 10, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N260L 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 N260L. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data