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N5300V

Aerotek PITTS S-2A

Valid Minnesota

N5300V is an Aerotek PITTS S-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Darwin, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated February 11, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Aerotek
Model
PITTS S-2A · all PITTS S-2As and related versions
Serial number
2262
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
115 mph
Transponder code
A6B2D9 (octal 51531331)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 21, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · February 11, 1982
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00262685

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Walters Todd J
Type
Individual
Address
67230 Csah 33
Darwin, MN 55324-6568

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1980-06-27Cessna 172RG · exported to French Polynesia · Valid registration
1959-02-13Hiller UH-12B · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5300V, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Walters Todd J, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2007, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2262 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5300V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172RG (serial 172RG0503, cancelled June 27, 1980); Hiller UH-12B (serial 555, cancelled February 13, 1959). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5300V: Accident on May 1, 2005 at Tracy, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX05CA153Accident on May 1, 2005 at Tracy, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek Pitts S-2A · operated under 091

the pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind conditions and failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in a ground loop and nose over.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data