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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Michael W Stewart PITTS S1
N401MS is a Michael W Stewart PITTS S1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Carterville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael W Stewart
- Model
- PITTS S1
- Serial number
- 085
- 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 O-320-EXP · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4B17C (octal 51130574)
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 30, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 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 · May 28, 2015
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01177121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martine Zachary
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 125 Timber Trl
Carterville, IL 62918-2378
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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 2
Connections how N401MS links to the rest of the register
- Michael W Stewart 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320-EXP 11 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Carterville, IL 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,067 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, overlap · 1996-02-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, rub · 1996-02-09
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N401MS.json.
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The public federal record on N401MS, 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 Martine Zachary, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N401MS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Winward Performance Llc OWL (serial 001, cancelled September 3, 2009); North American NA-265-60 (serial 306-17, cancelled September 27, 2001). 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]
2 NTSB records under N401MS: Accident on December 31, 2025 at Carbondale, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 18, 2006 at Starkville, MS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S1S · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to fuel starvation resulting from an uncommanded change to the fuel servo mixture position due to the improperly installed mixture cable.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Windward OWL · operated under 091
The structural failure of the airframe due to the inadvertent excessive airspeed during maneuvering.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data