{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2002-06-05","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-04-02","city":"DULLES","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41530","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"CHRISTEN INDUSTRIES","kit_model":"PITTS S1S","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Baker Donal E","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BAKER DONAL E","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056105T","mode_s_code":"51554502","mode_s_hex":"A6D942","model":"PITTS S1-11B","n_number":"N540PS","name":"OLERUD ERIK","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ZEPHYRHILLS","damage":"DEST","date":"1993-04-19","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"MIA93LA105","probable_cause":"CONTAMINATION (FIBERGLASS DUST) IN THE FUEL SYSTEM AND/OR A PIECE OF PLASTIC (FOREIGN) MATERIAL IN THE FUEL INJECTOR, WHICH RESULTED IN RESTRICTED FLOW OF FUEL TO THE ENGINE, LOSS OF ENGINE POWER, AND SUBSEQUENT COLLISION WITH TREES AND TERRAIN DURING A FORCED LANDING.","registration":"N540PS","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on April 19, 1993 at Zephyrhills, FL: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N540PS is a Baker Donal E PITTS S1-11B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Dulles, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Olerud Erik, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RI-02 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N540PS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Siegel Paul E GLASAIR III (serial 10001, cancelled July 13, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N540PS: Accident on April 19, 1993 at Zephyrhills, FL: minor injuries, destroyed. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"RI-02","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7040 BISHKEK PL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00693644","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N540PS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"201897039"}