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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Pitts 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- S-1T · all S-1Ts and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Pitts: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Pitts S-1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1026
- 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 AEIO-360-A1E · 200 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A65FC8 (octal 51457710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00281255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Velarides Paul
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N51HC links to the rest of the register
- Pitts S-1 22 registered
- Pitts 46 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-360-A1E 11 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Litchfield Park, AZ 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,423 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360-A1E 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360-A1E 3 reports since 1995
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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]
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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 …
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data