Michael 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael W Stewart
- Model
- PITTS S1
- Serial number
- 085
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-EXP · 160 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4B17C (octal 51130574)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 28, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01177121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martine Zachary
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA074 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Windward OWL · operated under 091
The structural failure of the airframe due to the inadvertent excessive airspeed during maneuvering.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW07LA006 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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