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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S
N91JW is an Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sparks, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 2, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotek
- Model
- PITTS SPECIAL S-1S · all PITTS SPECIAL S-1Ss 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 Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S 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
- 1-0023
- 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-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 115 mph
- Transponder code
- AC952F (octal 53112457)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00221151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dash Marilyn
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2483 Sorrento Ct
Sparks, NV 89434-2240
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N91JW links to the rest of the register
- Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL S-1S 30 registered
- Aerotek 133 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-360 series 885 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sparks, NV 117 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-360 series 30 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N91JW, 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 Dash Marilyn, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1-0023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N91JW 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 N91JW: Accident on September 17, 2016 at Reno, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek PITTS SPECIAL · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop.
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