Wayne John K PITTS SPECIAL S-1
N75JW is a Wayne John K PITTS SPECIAL S-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Berryville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 6, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wayne John K
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S-1
- Serial number
- JW-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AA188D (octal 52414215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 6, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00162637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Compher Charles D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1927 Withers Larue Rd
Berryville, VA 22611-1955
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N75JW, 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 Compher Charles D, an individual, certificate issued July 27, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 6, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JW-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N75JW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N75JW. 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