Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B
N494BE is an Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Big Ego Aerobatics INC, a corporation in Naperville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 17, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5329
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A61F12 (octal 51417422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 1996
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 17, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00135611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Ego Aerobatics INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9S021 Skylane Dr
Naperville, IL 60564-9448
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N494BE, 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 Big Ego Aerobatics INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 7, 1996, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 17, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N494BE 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 N494BE. 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