{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2010-06-02","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition; Racing","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-08-01","city":"SAHUARITA","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Pzl-Swidnik","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PZL-SWIDNIK","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9810150","mode_s_code":"51435305","mode_s_hex":"A63AC5","model":"PW-5","n_number":"N500JN","name":"TUCSON SOARING CLUB INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Marana","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-04-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR10CA215","probable_cause":"The pilot's inability to find thermal lift. Contributing to the accident was the failure of a computer that provided glide information and vertical speed instrumentation as a result of an improperly routed electrical cable that caused a short in the electrical system and the pilot's lack of experience in the glider.","registration":"N500JN","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on April 26, 2010 at Marana, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N500JN is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tucson Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Sahuarita, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated June 2, 2010.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tucson Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 1, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 2010, 14 years after the 1996 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1706010 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N500JN according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N500JN: Accident on April 26, 2010 at Marana, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"1706010","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"HC 70 BOX 4150","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00936351","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N500JN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"856298631"}