Hill Roy PITTS S-1S
N78RH is a Hill Roy PITTS S-1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Auburn, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hill Roy
- Model
- PITTS S-1S
- Serial number
- P2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA8FAC (octal 52507654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 25, 1981
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00604820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Garner David K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 31705 118Th Pl SE
Auburn, WA 98092-3617
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78RH, 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 Garner David K, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2005, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78RH 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 N78RH. 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 September 30, 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