Asbell William E PITTS S-1E
N52B is an Asbell William E PITTS S-1E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1988. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Red Baron LLC, an LLC in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 18, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Asbell William E
- Model
- PITTS S-1E
- Serial number
- 8-0084
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A686AE (octal 51503256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 18, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00445370
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Baron LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 600 N Broad St Ste 5 #3575
Middletown, DE 19709
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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 N52B, 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 Red Baron LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 9, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 18, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8-0084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52B 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 N52B: Accident on November 17, 2024 at Seguin, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S1E · operated under 091
On November 17, 2024, about 1415 central standard time, a Pitts Special S-1E airplane, N52B, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Seguin, Texas. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, he was practicing the International Aerobatic Club Advanced Free Sequence maneuver nine, which consists of a left 1 and ½ rotation snap roll to inverted flight followed by a reverse direction ½ loop downward, when he felt the left rudder lose tension, go to the firewall, and lost…
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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