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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Christen 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs 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 Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B 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
- 5073
- 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 AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- AC1BF5 (octal 53015765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- February 2, 2019
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 6, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00920455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviat Aircraft INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N88EW links to the rest of the register
- Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B 60 registered
- Christen Industries Inc 163 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 AEIO-540 series 434 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Aviat Aircraft INC 27 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 3, 2027
- Afton, WY 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Afton Lincoln County/General Boyd L Eddins Field · AFO
- Wyoming 3,232 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data