Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N448RS is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to White Wings Soaring INC, a corporation in Mount Prospect, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated April 25, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1705018
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A569DD (octal 51264735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · April 25, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00266481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White Wings Soaring INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 906 N Hemlock Ln
Mount Prospect, IL 60056-1406
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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 N448RS, 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 White Wings Soaring INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 24, 2003, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing, dated April 25, 1997, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1705018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N448RS 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 N448RS. 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