Schweizer SGS 1-35
N135RD is a Schweizer SGS 1-35, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Redondo Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 23, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-35 · all SGS 1-35s and related versions
- Serial number
- 55
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A08F3F (octal 50107477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · July 23, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00270383
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newton Christian B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1304 Slauson Ln
Redondo Beach, CA 90278-4435
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N135RD, 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 Newton Christian B, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 23, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N135RD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer SGS 1-35 (serial 26, cancelled November 21, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N135RD. 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 September 30, 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