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N56PS

Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B

Valid Hawaii

N56PS is an Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated April 20, 1994.

Aircraft

Maker
Aviat Inc
Model
PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs and related versions
Serial number
5306
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A725E7 (octal 51622747)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 5, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 5, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · April 20, 1994
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00364812

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Leonard Paul N
Type
Individual
Address
91-1041 Waikapuna St
Ewa Beach, HI 96706-6430

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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

1989-01-12Aerotek PITTS S-2A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N56PS, 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 Leonard Paul N, an individual, certificate issued November 5, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. 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 5306 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N56PS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerotek PITTS S-2A (serial 2056, cancelled January 12, 1989). 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 N56PS: Accident on July 29, 1985 at Ramona, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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

LAX85FUM01Accident on July 29, 1985 at Ramona, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 2056

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

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85FUM01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 August 27, 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