Pitts Special S-1C
N6431 is a Pitts Special S-1C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mount Prospect, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 25, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts Special
- Model
- S-1C · all S-1Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 6431
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A872DB (octal 52071333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 25, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00562296
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cussen George J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1503 E Dogwood Ln
Mount Prospect, IL 60056-1505
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6431, 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 Cussen George J, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 1999, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 25, 1973, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6431 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6431 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stearman Aircraft C3-B (serial 171, cancelled May 26, 1931). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6431. 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 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
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