Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B
N893DC is a Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Corporate Air Charter INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- PITTS S-2B · all PITTS S-2Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5182
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AC50C7 (octal 53050307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 28, 1990
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00974961
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Corporate Air Charter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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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 N893DC, 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 Corporate Air Charter INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 10, 2017, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N893DC 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 N893DC: Accident on August 9, 2014 at Lakeville, NY: 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: Aviat Pitts S2B · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to favor the right side of the relatively narrow turf runway while landing, resulting in inadvertent contact with tall grass and a berm.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA379 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