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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Pitts Aerobatics S-2B
N79AV is a Pitts Aerobatics S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts Aerobatics
- Model
- S-2B · all 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 Pitts Aerobatics S-2 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
- 5114
- 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
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AAB5C0 (octal 52532700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 4, 1986
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00075350
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N79AV links to the rest of the register
- Pitts Aerobatics S-2 28 registered
- Pitts Aerobatics 28 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
- 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 N79AV, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued March 27, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 4, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79AV 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 N79AV: Accident on June 20, 2025 at Broadway, NC: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S2 · operated under 091
On June 20, 2025, at 0900 eastern daylight time, a Pitts Aerobatics S-2B, N79AV, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Broadway, North Carolina. The private pilot and the commercial pilot-rated passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 aerobatic flight. According to preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) data, the airplane departed the Raleigh Executive Jetport (TTA), Sanford, North Carolina, at 0853. Immediately after departure, the airplane made a left turn to the southwest, followed …
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data