Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1
N8221K is a Pdps Pzl-Bielsko SZD-55-1, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 26, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pdps Pzl-Bielsko
- Model
- SZD-55-1 · all SZD-55-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 551197093
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB3ACE (octal 52635316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 26, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00283716
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Klassen Thomas L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4510 Lake Charles Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78413-5239
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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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8221K, 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 Klassen Thomas L, an individual, certificate issued June 14, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 26, 1998, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 551197093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8221K was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288216168, cancelled January 2, 1990); Gulfstream-Schweizer A/C Corp GULFSTREAM AM G-164B (serial 621B, cancelled September 12, 1980); Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1-1221, cancelled December 2, 1946). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8221K. 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