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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- B-4 · all B-4s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. An all-metal glider. This is how the Pilatus B-4 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 062
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6AC9 (octal 52665311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2013
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 9, 1973
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00873321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meads Andrew
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N8349 links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus B-4 37 registered
- Pilatus 403 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Meads Andrew 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hatfield, PA 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus B-4 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus B-4 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8349.json.
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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
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data