Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B
N88EW is a Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aviat Aircraft INC, a corporation in Afton, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 6, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- AC1BF5 (octal 53015765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- February 2, 2019
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 6, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00920455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviat Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1240
Afton, WY 83110-1240
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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 N88EW, 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 Aviat Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 6, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88EW 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]
2 NTSB records under N88EW: Accident on August 5, 2014 at Oceanside, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 20, 1993 at Hawthorne, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Christen Industries INC PITTS S 2B · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inadequate fuel planning.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14LA329 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Christen Industries PITTS S-2B · operated under 091
dual student's failure to maintain directional control and improper use of the rudder and the CFI's inadequate supervision of the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93LA359 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