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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerotek PITTS S-2A
N8040 is an Aerotek PITTS S-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ozark, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated September 18, 1974.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotek
- Model
- PITTS S-2A · all PITTS S-2As 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 Aerotek PITTS S-2A 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
- 2083
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 115 mph
- Transponder code
- AAF311 (octal 52571421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 1974
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00870572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collins Leon Marshall
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 791 Porter Andrews Rd
Ozark, AL 36360-4065
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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 1
Connections how N8040 links to the rest of the register
- Aerotek PITTS S-2A 78 registered
- Aerotek 133 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 IO-360 series 8,562 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Ozark, AL 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Ozark/Blackwell Field · 71J
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8040.json.
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The public federal record on N8040, 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 Collins Leon Marshall, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8040 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Keystone Aircraftcorporation LOENING C-2-H (serial 212, cancelled May 19, 1933). 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 N8040: Accident on April 27, 1996 at Reidsville, NC: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek PITTS S-2A · operated under 091
the pilot failed to maintain control of the airplane while performing an acrobatic maneuver.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data