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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Aviat Aircraft Inc PITTS S-2B
N711SF is an Aviat Aircraft Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Flying L Aircraft INC, a corporation in Fort Denaud, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 1998 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 11, 1997.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft 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 Aircraft 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
- 5351
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A9815A (octal 52300532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 1998
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 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 · March 11, 1997
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00006371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying L Aircraft INC
- 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
- 617 Kirby Thompson Rd
Fort Denaud, FL 33935-0549
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N711SF links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Aircraft Inc PITTS S-2B 11 registered
- Aviat Aircraft Inc 972 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 434 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Flying L Aircraft INC 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Denaud, FL 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,709 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Aviat Aircraft Inc PITTS S-2B 1 reports since 1995
- 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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The public federal record on N711SF, 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 Flying L Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 24, 1998, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 11, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N711SF 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]
1 NTSB record under N711SF: Accident on July 17, 1991 at Meridian, MS: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 65 · operated under 091
LOSS OF POWER FROM THE RIGHT ENGINE DUE TO UNDETERMINED REASONS. THE FAILURE OF THE PROPELLER TO FEATHER WAS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data