Schweizer SGS 2-33A
N1185S is a Schweizer SGS 2-33A, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Fault Line Flyers, a corporation in Leander, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 1988 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 27, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 2-33A · all SGS 2-33As and related versions
- Serial number
- 235
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- A04D03 (octal 50046403)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 1988
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · April 27, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00460220
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fault Line Flyers
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1428
Leander, TX 78646-1428
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N1185S, 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 Fault Line Flyers, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 1988, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated April 27, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1185S 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 N1185S. 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 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 August 27, 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