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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S
N8074 is an Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Occidental, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated January 26, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotek
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S-1S · all PITTS SPECIAL S-1Ss 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 SPECIAL S-1S 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
- 1-0049
- 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-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 115 mph
- Transponder code
- AAFEC2 (octal 52577302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 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 · January 26, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00660482
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turner Bryan J
- 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
- 16901 Fitzpatrick Ln
Occidental, CA 95465-9307
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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 N8074 links to the rest of the register
- Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S 30 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 AEIO-360 series 884 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Occidental, CA 3 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8074, 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 Turner Bryan J, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic, dated January 26, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1-0049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8074 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco 9 (serial R-237, cancelled March 28, 1930). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8074. 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 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