Schweizer SGS 2-33A
N1186S is a Schweizer SGS 2-33A, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mohawk Soaring Club, a corporation in Hoosick Falls, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 9, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 2-33A · all SGS 2-33As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The 2-33 trainer: steel-tube fuselage under fabric, aluminium wings. This is how the Schweizer SGS 2 gliders (2-33 and 2-32) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 236
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- A04D26 (octal 50046446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 9, 1972
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00491280
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mohawk Soaring Club (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 404
Hoosick Falls, NY 12090-0404
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1186S links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer SGS 2 gliders (2-33 and 2-32) 275 registered
- Schweizer 1,186 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mohawk Soaring Club 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hoosick Falls, NY 5 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,661 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer SGS 2 gliders (2-33 and 2-32) 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Schweizer SGS 2 gliders (2-33 and 2-32) 20 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer SGS 2 gliders (2-33 and 2-32) 11 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N1186S, 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 Mohawk Soaring Club, a corporation, certificate issued August 27, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated May 9, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 236 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1186S 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 N1186S. 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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data