Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N76DJ is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mississippi State University Soaring Club, a partnership in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 10, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17.12.021
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- AA3F83 (octal 52437603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 10, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00044077
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mississippi State University Soaring Club
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box A
Mississippi State, MS 39762-5501
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N76DJ, 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 Mississippi State University Soaring Club, a partnership, certificate issued January 29, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 10, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.12.021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N76DJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fletcher William D SONERAI II L (serial 9123, cancelled August 10, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N76DJ: Accident on September 30, 1989 at Interlochen, MI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Fletcher SONERAI-2L · operated under 091
LOOSE CYLINDER DUE TO IMPROPER MAINTENANCE BY THE PILOT/OWNER, WHICH RESULTED IN OVERHEATING AND FAILURE OF THE ALUMINUM CYLINDER HEAD. THE PRESENCE OF TREES WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89DEM10 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
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