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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Pitts S-2A
N51ST is a Pitts S-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Cnc Aerobatics LLC, an LLC in Ada, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 29, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- S-2A · all S-2As 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-2 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
- 2253
- 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 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A660B8 (octal 51460270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 1981
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00181553
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cnc Aerobatics LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7700 Sun Quest Rdg NE
Ada, MI 49301-9558
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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 1
Connections how N51ST links to the rest of the register
- Pitts S-2 13 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 series 884 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Cnc Aerobatics LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ada, MI 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Pitts S-2 11 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N51ST, 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 Cnc Aerobatics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 27, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated September 29, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51ST was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerotek PITTS S-2A (serial 2146, cancelled March 21, 2005). 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]
1 NTSB record under N51ST: Incident on April 28, 1993 at Oklahoma City, OK: no injuries, minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek S-2A · operated under 091
THE PILOT OF THE PITTS, N51ST, MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE TOWER'S INSTRUCTIONS AND CLEARANCE, AND HIS FAILURE TO SEE AND AVOID THE COMMANDER 114B, N194A.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data