Schweizer SGS 2-33A
N1178S is a Schweizer SGS 2-33A, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Leonardtown, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 21, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 2-33A · all SGS 2-33As and related versions
- Serial number
- 228
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- A049B5 (octal 50044665)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 21, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00561240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lowry Wilson R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22515 Camp Calvert Rd
Leonardtown, MD 20650-4704
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1178S, 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 Lowry Wilson R, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2000, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 21, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1178S 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]
1 NTSB record under N1178S: Accident on November 7, 1993 at Morrisville, VT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer SGS 2-33A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN SOARING WHICH RESULTED IN INADEQUATE ALTITUDE TO CLEAR THE RIDGE AND SUBSEQUENT COLLISION WITH THE TERRAIN. A RELATED FACTOR WAS THE HIGH TERRAIN.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data