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N71JM

Mcdevitt Jim PITTS S2SE

Valid

N71JM is a Mcdevitt Jim PITTS S2SE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Zurich. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 1992 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 9, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcdevitt Jim
Model
PITTS S2SE
Serial number
JFM-4
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A97A88 (octal 52275210)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 29, 1992
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 9, 1991
FAA region
European
FAA record id
00165331

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gafner R
Type
Individual
Address
Sonnenrainstrasse 15
Durnten
Zurich, 8635

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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

1990-04-06Moody James E HIPERLIGHT SNS-8 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N71JM, 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 Gafner R, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 1992, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 9, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JFM-4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N71JM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Moody James E HIPERLIGHT SNS-8 (serial 63, cancelled April 6, 1990). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N71JM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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