Schweizer SGS 2-33A
N17901 is a Schweizer SGS 2-33A, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wisconsin Soaring Society INC, a corporation in Delafield, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 1999 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated July 23, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 2-33A · all SGS 2-33As and related versions
- Serial number
- 291
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- A13D0E (octal 50236416)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 1999
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · July 23, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00052500
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wisconsin Soaring Society INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- W333S271 Glen Oaks Dr
Delafield, WI 53018-3103
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N17901, 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 Wisconsin Soaring Society INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 1999, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated July 23, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17901 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylor J-2 (serial 1501, cancelled October 20, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N17901: Accident on July 12, 1998 at Indianapolis, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer SGS 2-33A · operated under 091
the delayed in-flight decision of the pilot in command to take control of the aircraft and the proper airspeed not obtained/maintained by the pilot in command which resulted in a stall. A factor to the accident was the runway light.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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