Aerotek PITTS S-2A
N83PS is an Aerotek PITTS S-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mason, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 13, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotek
- Model
- PITTS S-2A · all PITTS S-2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2143
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 115 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5757 (octal 52653527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Acrobatic · May 13, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00613451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burt Donald H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 417 Coppersmith Dr
Mason, MI 48854-1378
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N83PS, 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 Burt Donald H, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated May 13, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2143 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N83PS 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 N83PS: Accident on July 26, 2025 at New Holstein, WI: 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: Aerotek PITTS S-2A · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of direction control during landing due to an unapproved tailwheel assembly and tail spring that resulted in a tailwheel shimmy and a subsequent ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA287 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