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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pitts SPECIAL
N2997G is a Pitts SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Greenwood, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 9, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- SPECIAL
- Serial number
- BM-01
- 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-320 SER · 160 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A31A3D (octal 50615075)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 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 9, 1996
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00260762
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hiemenz Thomas 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
- 1290 Osprey Way
Greenwood, IN 46143-7335 - Co-owners
- Marburg Loren
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N2997G links to the rest of the register
- Pitts 46 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming AEIO-320 series 74 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Greenwood, IN 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,698 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-320 series 26 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2997G.json.
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The public federal record on N2997G, 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 Hiemenz Thomas S, a co-owned, certificate issued August 18, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BM-01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2997G 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]
2 NTSB records under N2997G: Accident on August 20, 2011 at Bessemer, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 5, 1994 at Plant City, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts SPECIAL · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S1C · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING LANDING RESULTING IN THE AIRCRAFT RUNNING OFF THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY AND NOSING OVER IN SOFT TERRAIN.
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