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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Pzl-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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 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
- 17.11.012
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ADC2F1 (octal 53341361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 31, 1998
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bermuda High Soaring School INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N986RM links to the rest of the register
- Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 53 registered
- Pzl-Swidnik 58 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bermuda High Soaring School INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Jefferson, SC 2 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N986RM.json.
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data