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N135AL

Schweizer SGS 1-35

Valid Montana

N135AL is a Schweizer SGS 1-35, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Black Industries LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 1, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 1-35 · all SGS 1-35s and related versions
Serial number
40
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A08DCF (octal 50106717)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 25, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · August 1, 1975
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00841430

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Black Industries LLC
Type
LLC
Address
415 N Benton Ave
Helena, MT 59601-5041

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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N135AL, 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 Black Industries LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 25, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N135AL 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N135AL. 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 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