Pilatus B4-PC11
N65317 is a Pilatus B4-PC11, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ballston Spa, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; glider, dated May 18, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- B4-PC11 · all B4-PC11s and related versions
- Serial number
- 190
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 45 mph
- Transponder code
- A89A7A (octal 52115172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Glider · May 18, 1976
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00142606
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mahony John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2009 Barrett Rd
Ballston Spa, NY 12020-2816
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 N65317, 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 Mahony John, an individual, certificate issued March 24, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; glider, dated May 18, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 190 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N65317 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 N65317: Accident on May 20, 2021 at Sterling, MA: minor 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: Pilatus B4-PC11 · operated under 091
The pilot’s misjudged approach angle which resulted in impact with trees and terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA266 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