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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Galpin Harry PITTS SPECIAL S1C
N54LJ is a Galpin Harry PITTS SPECIAL S1C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Castro Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2011.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 4:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Galpin Harry
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S1C
- Serial number
- 001
- 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 IO-320-E2A · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1969
- Transponder code
- A6D696 (octal 51553226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 12, 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 · April 8, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00535211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Poulton Douglas e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18179 Walnut Rd
Castro Valley, CA 94546-1338
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N54LJ links to the rest of the register
- Galpin Harry 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-320-E2A 11 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Castro Valley, CA 53 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320-E2A 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320-E2A 10 reports since 1995
- Where N54LJ is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:19 pm.
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The public federal record on N54LJ, 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 Poulton Douglas e, an individual, certificate issued November 12, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 2011, 42 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N54LJ 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N54LJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data