Baker Donal E PITTS S1-11B
N540PS is a Baker Donal E PITTS S1-11B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Dulles, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Baker Donal E
- Model
- PITTS S1-11B
- Serial number
- RI-02
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- CHRISTEN INDUSTRIES PITTS S1S
- Transponder code
- A6D942 (octal 51554502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 5, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00693644
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Olerud Erik
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7040 Bishkek Pl
Dulles, VA 20189-7039
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N540PS, 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 Olerud Erik, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RI-02 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N540PS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Siegel Paul E GLASAIR III (serial 10001, cancelled July 13, 1995). 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 N540PS: Accident on April 19, 1993 at Zephyrhills, FL: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Siegel GLASAIR III · operated under 091
CONTAMINATION (FIBERGLASS DUST) IN THE FUEL SYSTEM AND/OR A PIECE OF PLASTIC (FOREIGN) MATERIAL IN THE FUEL INJECTOR, WHICH RESULTED IN RESTRICTED FLOW OF FUEL TO THE ENGINE, LOSS OF ENGINE POWER, AND SUBSEQUENT COLLISION WITH TREES AND TERRAIN DURING A FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA93LA105 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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