Aerotek PITTS S-2A
N80053 is an Aerotek PITTS S-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Abingdon, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated October 31, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotek
- Model
- PITTS S-2A · all PITTS S-2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2111
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 115 mph
- Transponder code
- AAE500 (octal 52562400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · October 31, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00550692
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White John R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24648 Old South Way
Abingdon, VA 24211-6187
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N80053, 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 White John R, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated October 31, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2111 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80053 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Culver V (serial V-94, cancelled December 2, 1946). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N80053: Accident on July 19, 2008 at Cleveland, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on June 3, 1984 at Redlands, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek Pitts S-2A · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during his attempted performance of aerobatic maneuvers shortly after takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN08LA124 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pitts S2A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX84LA331 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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