Grumman S2F-1
N8110X is a Grumman S2F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Carolina Warbirds LLC, an LLC in Patuxent River, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 4, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- S2F-1 · all S2F-1s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman 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
- 136398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AB0F81 (octal 52607601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 4, 1996
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00315362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carolina Warbirds LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 188
Patuxent River, MD 20670-0188
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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 N8110X links to the rest of the register
- Grumman S-2 18 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Carolina Warbirds LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Patuxent River, MD 133 aircraft registered in this town
- Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Grumman S-2 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N8110X, 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 Carolina Warbirds LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 136398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8110X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172B (serial 17248610, cancelled January 3, 1992). 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 N8110X. 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