Panzl PITTS SPECIAL S-1
N517L is a Panzl PITTS SPECIAL S-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 24, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Panzl
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S-1
- Serial number
- BP1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A67C6A (octal 51476152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 27, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 24, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00952165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buchenroth Steven L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4994 Township Road 238
Huntsville, OH 43324-9748
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N517L, 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 Buchenroth Steven L, an individual, certificate issued April 27, 2011, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 24, 2002, 33 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BP1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N517L 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]
1 NTSB record under N517L: Accident on March 1, 1992 at Reidsville, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S-1 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO COMPENSATE FOR THE TAILWIND AND THE IMPROPER TOUCH DOWN POINT. FACTORS WERE THE TAILWIND AND DOWNDRAFT WHICH RESULTED FROM THE TALL OBSTACLES (TREES) AROUND THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92LA055 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data