Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N986RM is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Bermuda High Soaring School INC, a corporation in Jefferson, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 31, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17.11.012
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ADC2F1 (octal 53341361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 31, 1998
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00583706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bermuda High Soaring School INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4278 Thermal Trl
Jefferson, SC 29718-9438
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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 N986RM, 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 Bermuda High Soaring School INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 31, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.11.012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N986RM 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N986RM. 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