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N1118S

Schweizer SGS 1-26E

N1118S is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aero Club Albatross INC, a corporation in Blairstown, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 1990 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 4, 1971. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 1-26E · all SGS 1-26Es and related versions
Serial number
508
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
57 mph
Transponder code
A0336B (octal 50031553)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 11, 1990
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · June 4, 1971
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00991080

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aero Club Albatross INC
Type
Corporation
Address
36 Lambert Rd
Blairstown, NJ 07825

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-16Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N1118S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aero Club Albatross INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 1990, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated June 4, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 508 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1118S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1118S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data