Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N500JN is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tucson Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Sahuarita, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 2, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1706010
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A63AC5 (octal 51435305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · June 2, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00936351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tucson Soaring Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Hc 70 Box 4150
Sahuarita, AZ 85629-8631
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 N500JN, 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 Tucson Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 1, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 2010, 14 years after the 1996 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 1706010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500JN 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 N500JN: Accident on April 26, 2010 at Marana, AZ: 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 inability to find thermal lift. Contributing to the accident was the failure of a computer that provided glide information and vertical speed instrumentation as a result of an improperly routed electrical cable that caused a short in the electrical system and the pilot's lack of experience in the glider.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR10CA215 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