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N1189S

Schweizer SGS 2-32

Valid Hawaii

N1189S is a Schweizer SGS 2-32, a glider with no engine, built in 1972. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Skysurfing Hawaii LLC, an LLC in Waialua, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 2-32 · all SGS 2-32s and related versions
Serial number
62
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
3
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
82 mph
Transponder code
A04D8F (octal 50046617)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 17, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00871280

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skysurfing Hawaii LLC
Type
LLC
Address
67-404 Kekauwa St
Waialua, HI 96791-9628

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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1189S, 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 Skysurfing Hawaii LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 17, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for research and development; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 62 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1189S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1189S: Accident on April 2, 1986 at Dillingham Fld, HI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX86FJA01Accident on April 2, 1986 at Dillingham Fld, HI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer 2-32 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX86FJA01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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