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N8DK

Pilatus B4-PC11

Valid Florida

N8DK is a Pilatus B4-PC11, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Flying L Aircraft INC, a corporation in Fort Denaud, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 1998 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 29, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus
Model
B4-PC11 · all B4-PC11s and related versions
Serial number
236
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
3
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
45 mph
Transponder code
AADD80 (octal 52556600)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 11, 1998
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · February 29, 1976
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00450782

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flying L Aircraft INC
Type
Corporation
Address
617 Kirby Thompson Rd
Fort Denaud, FL 33935-0549

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8DK, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Flying L Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 1998, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated February 29, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 236 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8DK according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8DK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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