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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Ernst Robert E PITTS S2E
N8005X is an Ernst Robert E PITTS S2E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ernst Robert E
- Model
- PITTS S2E
- Serial number
- TB-2
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAE4FA (octal 52562372)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00254421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Air Services INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 701 S Carson St Ste 200
Carson City, NV 89701-5239
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N8005X links to the rest of the register
- Ernst Robert E 2 aircraft on the register
- International Air Services INC Trustee 619 aircraft in the fleet
- Carson City, NV 966 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,582 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8005X.json.
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The public federal record on N8005X, 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 International Air Services INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued July 3, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TB-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8005X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 0903, cancelled November 8, 1988); Consolidated Aeronautics Inc. LAKE LA-4-200 (serial 1038, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8005X: Accident on September 25, 2004 at Hanover, IN: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ernst Pitts S2E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance to the trees and terrain during the aerobatic maneuver. Contributing factors were the pilot's decision to perform a low-level, ostentatious aerobatic display and the trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data