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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Pitts S-1
N81EM is a Pitts S-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in League City, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 10, 1979. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts
- Model
- S-1 · all S-1s 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 Pitts S-1 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
- A-L-1
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB0773 (octal 52603563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 13, 2026
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 10, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00530782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Malone Mark R
- 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
- 2928 Auburn Creek Ln
League City, TX 77573-2194
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 1
Connections how N81EM links to the rest of the register
- Pitts S-1 22 registered
- Pitts 46 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 O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- League City, TX 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Bay Electric Supply Heliport · T95
- Texas 29,939 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N81EM, 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 Malone Mark R, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-L-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81EM according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 27, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N81EM. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data