Schweizer SGS 1-26E
N17911 is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in El Paso, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated November 10, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26E · all SGS 1-26Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 541
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 57 mph
- Transponder code
- A13D31 (octal 50236461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · November 10, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00402500
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simien Charles L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11676 Spencer Dr
El Paso, TX 79936-0845
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N17911, 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 Simien Charles L, an individual, certificate issued December 11, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 541 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17911 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J-2 (serial 1511, cancelled July 1, 1941). 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 N17911: Accident on October 8, 2004 at El Paso, TX: serious 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 1-26E · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of distance and altitude during a local soaring flight. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the landing.
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