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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N5FV

Aerotek PITTS S-2A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

N5FV is an Aerotek PITTS S-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 9, 1981. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Aerotek
Model
PITTS S-2A · all PITTS S-2As and related versions
Built of
steel tube, wood and fabric
A welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Pitts: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Aerotek PITTS S-2A family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
2254
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 AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
115 mph
Transponder code
A635CF (octal 51432717)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 11, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 9, 1981
FAA region
—
FAA record id
00171553

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
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

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Documents on file 1

2026-10-01Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N5FV, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued May 11, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated October 9, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2254 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5FV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5FV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data