Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N157AJ is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Puget Sound Soaring Association, a corporation in Enumclaw, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 16, 2001. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17.10.018
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A0E439 (octal 50162071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 16, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00823734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Puget Sound Soaring Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 941
Enumclaw, WA 98022-0941
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 1
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The public federal record on N157AJ, 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 Puget Sound Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued June 8, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 16, 2001, 3 years after the 1998 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 17.10.018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N157AJ according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N157AJ: Accident on May 23, 2026 at Soap Lake, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to ensure the proper preflight assembly of the glider's wing attachment system, which resulted in substantial damage to the wing structure during flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA203 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data