Berkshire Mfg. Corp. CONCEPT 70
N382W is a Berkshire Mfg. Corp. CONCEPT 70, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Truro, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated March 31, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Berkshire Mfg. Corp.
- Model
- CONCEPT 70 · all CONCEPT 70s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- A464AC (octal 51062254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · March 31, 1980
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00230284
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones J Philip JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 153
Truro, MA 02666-0153
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.
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The public federal record on N382W, 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 Jones J Philip JR, an individual, certificate issued September 17, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 31, 1980, 6 years after the 1974 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 15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N382W 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]
1 NTSB record under N382W: Accident on July 12, 1992 at Ephrata, 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: Berkshire Mfg. CONCEPT 70 · operated under 091
INADEQUATE IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION. FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: NO THERMAL LIFT AND ROUGH/UNEVEN TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA92LA151 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