{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-09-18","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-09-13","city":"LITCHFIELD PARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41851","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"AEIO-360-A1E","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Pitts","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PITTS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7220404","mode_s_code":"51457710","mode_s_hex":"A65FC8","model":"S-1T","n_number":"N51HC","name":"VELARIDES PAUL","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Goodyear","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR25FA253","probable_cause":"","registration":"N51HC","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on August 12, 2025 at Goodyear, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51HC is a Pitts S-1T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Litchfield Park, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 18, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Velarides Paul, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 2019, 34 years after the 1985 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1026 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N51HC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N51HC: Accident on August 12, 2025 at Goodyear, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"1026","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 487","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00281255","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51HC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"853400487"}