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Pitts Special (monoplane)

American racing aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Pitts built a monoplane racer Special in the early postwar years. Pitts also built several monoplane racing planes in the 1940s–1950s, the most famous of which was the low-winged "Pellet" of 1947 and the mid-winged Special Lil' Monster & Miss Dayton of 1951. Among other one-off projects, he also built a two-seat sport monoplane called the Big Hickey.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pitts Special (monoplane)” as american racing aircraft. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pitts, Special and monoplane can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pitts Special (monoplane)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.