Pilatus B-4
N8349 is a Pilatus B-4, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Meads Andrew, a partnership in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 9, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- B-4 · all B-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 062
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6AC9 (octal 52665311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · August 9, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00873321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meads Andrew
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 1109 Mill Rd
Hatfield, PA 19440-1036 - Co-owners
- Closson Luke E JR
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 N8349, 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 Meads Andrew, a partnership, certificate issued November 7, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated August 9, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 062 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8349 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 N8349: Accident on October 17, 1988 at Bridgeport, TX: 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 B4PC11 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW89DPA02 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