Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N908BT is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 3, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1707003
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AC8D0F (octal 53106417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · June 3, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00796551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hutnick Michael C JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 450 Riverview Ave
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-8224
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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 N908BT, 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 Hutnick Michael C JR, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2003, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 3, 2004, 7 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1707003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N908BT 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 N908BT: Accident on April 11, 2002 at New Smithville, PA: no 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: Wsk Pzl PW-5 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate evaluation of the weather which resulted in the loss of thermal lift and collision with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD02LA042 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