Young PITTS SPECIAL
N77JY is a Young PITTS SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 22, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Young
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AA678D (octal 52463615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 22, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00042192
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ploeger William A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6654 Norman Dr
Melbourne, FL 32904-2522
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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 N77JY, 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 Ploeger William A, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 22, 1978, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N77JY 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 N77JY. 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