Pitts Special SC-1
N8351 is a Pitts Special SC-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rosamond, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pitts Special
- Model
- SC-1 · all SC-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 314F210
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6D68 (octal 52666550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 29, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00353281
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zeller Francis J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4300 Knox Ave
Rosamond, CA 93560-6427
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8351, 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 Zeller Francis J, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. 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 314F210 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8351 according to the deregistered file. [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 N8351: Accident on August 15, 2001 at Jerome, ID: no 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: Pitts Special SC-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. Factors included: an incorrectly manufactured or adjusted rudder travel setting, resulting in restricted movement of the left brake; the mechanic's failure to adjust the rudder travel to the correct tolerance; and the pilot's operation of the aircraft with a known equipment deficiency.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA01LA151 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data