Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N108JF 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 Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 1997 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated August 28, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17.09.008
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A0233A (octal 50021472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 1997
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · August 28, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00526941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freeman James E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3109 Sunset Ln
Arlington, TX 76016-5934
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N108JF, 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 Freeman James E, an individual, certificate issued December 18, 1997, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated August 28, 1998, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.09.008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N108JF according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N108JF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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