Schweizer SGS 1-26E
N17917 is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Long Island Soaring Assn, a corporation in Yaphank, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 1984 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 6, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26E · all SGS 1-26Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 557
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 57 mph
- Transponder code
- A13D37 (octal 50236467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 1984
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 6, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00342500
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Long Island Soaring Assn
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 222 Gerard Rd
Yaphank, NY 11980-9630
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 N17917, 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 Long Island Soaring Assn, a corporation, certificate issued December 13, 1984, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 6, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 557 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17917 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J-2 (serial 1517, cancelled May 7, 1943). 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 N17917. 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