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N51978

Shaw STITS SA3B

Valid Louisiana

N51978 is a Shaw STITS SA3B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 3, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Shaw
Model
STITS SA3B
Serial number
GBS1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A6864C (octal 51503114)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 8, 2013
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 3, 1978
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00142265

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bonin Kenneth P
Type
Individual
Address
1007 Layton Dr
Breaux Bridge, LA 70517-7629

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1951-05-15Fairchild M-62A · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data