Sumpter PITTS S-1S
N859 is a Sumpter PITTS 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 Thompsons Station, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sumpter
- Model
- PITTS S-1S
- Serial number
- 1SP
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- ABC8C6 (octal 52744306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 6, 2016
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00400547
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flamini Matthew D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3085 Americus Dr
Thompsons Station, TN 37179-9610
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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 4
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The public federal record on N859, 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 Flamini Matthew D, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 6, 2016, 39 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1SP for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N859 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Starr Knight SKYE-RYDER II (serial 9411272, cancelled September 20, 1996); Buehler VARIEZE (serial 1125, cancelled March 21, 1989); Curtiss Airplane & Motor ORIOLE (serial S-1 SUB, cancelled July 15, 1932). 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 N859. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data