Pitts S-1T
N51HC is a Pitts S-1T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Litchfield Park, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 18, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- S-1T · all S-1Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 1026
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360-A1E · 200 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A65FC8 (octal 51457710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 18, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00281255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Velarides Paul
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 487
Litchfield Park, AZ 85340-0487
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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 N51HC, 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 Velarides Paul, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2019, 34 years after the 1985 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 1026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51HC 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 N51HC: Accident on August 12, 2025 at Goodyear, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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-1T · operated under 091
On August 12, 2025, about 1019 mountain standard time, a Pitts S-1T, N51HC, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Goodyear, Arizona. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The pilot did not make radio contact with the air traffic control tower, nor was there any evidence he was in radio contact with anyone prior to or during the accident flight. There was no automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data for the accident flight. Recorded radar data from the Federal …
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- 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