{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-12-10","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-01-29","city":"MISSISSIPPI STATE","country_code":"US","county_code":"105","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":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Pzl-Swidnik","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PZL-SWIDNIK","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9810150","mode_s_code":"52437603","mode_s_hex":"AA3F83","model":"PW-5","n_number":"N76DJ","name":"MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY SOARING CLUB","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"INTERLOCHEN","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-09-30","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI89DEM10","probable_cause":"LOOSE CYLINDER DUE TO IMPROPER MAINTENANCE BY THE PILOT/OWNER, WHICH RESULTED IN OVERHEATING AND FAILURE OF THE ALUMINUM CYLINDER HEAD.  THE PRESENCE OF TREES WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A FACTOR.","registration":"N76DJ","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on September 30, 1989 at Interlochen, MI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N76DJ is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mississippi State University Soaring Club, a partnership in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 10, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mississippi State University Soaring Club, a partnership, certificate issued January 29, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated December 10, 2002, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.12.021 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N76DJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fletcher William D SONERAI II L (serial 9123, cancelled August 10, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N76DJ: Accident on September 30, 1989 at Interlochen, MI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Partnership","registrant_type_code":"2","seats":1,"serial_number":"17.12.021","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX A","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00044077","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N76DJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"397625501"}