Goolsby PITTS SPECIAL
N90878 is a Goolsby PITTS SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Zimmerman, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 2, 1982. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Goolsby
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 194H
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AC9052 (octal 53110122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 2, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00251151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schmoll Steven D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 26057 24Th St W
Zimmerman, MN 55398-4755
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N90878, 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 Schmoll Steven D, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 1982, 8 years after the 1974 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 194H for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90878 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6 (serial 42878, cancelled April 12, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N90878. 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 September 30, 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