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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Staudacher Jon PITTS S1E
N96HH is a Staudacher Jon PITTS S1E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 1997 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 31, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Staudacher Jon
- Model
- PITTS S1E
- Serial number
- 8-0100
- 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
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AD5A84 (octal 53255204)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 1997
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 31, 1996
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00233053
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ritzenthaler Hugo A
- 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
- 3061 Charlwood Dr
Rochester Hills, MI 48306-3686
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N96HH links to the rest of the register
- Staudacher Jon 6 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming AEIO-360 series 885 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Rochester Hills, MI 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,226 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 N96HH, 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 Ritzenthaler Hugo A, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 1997, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 1996, 12 years after the 1984 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 8-0100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96HH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N96HH. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data