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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B
N974 is an Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Katy, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 2, 1993.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 11:45 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat 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 Aviat 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
- 5281
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AD9280 (octal 53311200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2026
- 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 2, 1993
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00324372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mulligan Shawn P
- 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
- 2727 Commercial Center Blvd
Apt 425
Katy, TX 77494-7286
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N974 links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Inc PITTS S-2B 78 registered
- Aviat Inc 170 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 433 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Katy, TX 104 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,938 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Door, fod · 2021-08-30
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulb, inoperative · 2004-05-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2004-05-19
- Where N974 is now · Last seen October 7 at 11:45 am.
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The public federal record on N974, 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 Mulligan Shawn P, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated November 2, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N974 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S62A (serial 62005, cancelled September 1, 1970); Alexander Aircraft Co EAGLEROCK (serial 226, cancelled July 1, 1935). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N974. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data