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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Asbell 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Asbell William E
- Model
- PITTS S-1E
- Serial number
- 8-0084
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A686AE (octal 51503256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 18, 1988
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00445370
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Baron 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
- 600 N Broad St Ste 5 #3575
Middletown, DE 19709
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N52B links to the rest of the register
- Asbell William E 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,562 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Red Baron LLC 31 aircraft in the fleet
- Middletown, DE 348 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N52B.json.
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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
The improper construction of the rudder cable assembly by the airplane builder, which resulted in the fatigue failure of the left rudder cable during the landing roll and the pilot’s subsequent inability to maintain directional control.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data