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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B
N61PS is an Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Pitts Rock and Roll INC Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 12, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA 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 Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B 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
- 5230
- 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-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A7EDBB (octal 51766673)
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 31, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 31, 2024
- 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 · December 12, 1991
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00873722
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pitts Rock and Roll INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N61PS links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B 78 registered
- Aviat Inc 170 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-540 series 433 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Pitts Rock and Roll INC Trustee 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,374 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
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Valid registration to Pitts Rock and Roll INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued May 31, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated December 12, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5230 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61PS 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]
3 NTSB records under N61PS: Accident on March 3, 2004 at Parkland, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 4, 1994 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 26, 1994 at Keystone Height, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat Pitts S2B · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning which resulted in an off-airport precautionary landing to preclude fuel exhaustion, which resulted in damage to the airplane during the landing.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S2B · operated under 091
THE POOR WELDING QUALITY OF THE MANUFACTURER, RESULTING IN THE FATIGUE FAILURE OF THE AILERON ATTACHMENT BRACKET.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S2B · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S EXCEEDING OF THE DESIGN LIMITATIONS OF THE AIRPLANE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data