Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N104BD is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 2, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17.08.024
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A013AD (octal 50011655)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · May 2, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00706831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lappin Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 14002 Saskatchewan Dr
Austin, TX 78734-3348
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N104BD, 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 Lappin Thomas, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2001, 4 years after the 1997 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.08.024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N104BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Levitsky Richard B LEVITSKY BD-5T (serial RL001, cancelled November 29, 2001). 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]
1 NTSB record under N104BD: Accident on July 14, 2001 at Cameron Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Levitsky BD-5T · operated under 091
an in-flight collision with terrain for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA244 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data