Schweizer SGS 1-26B
N187JG is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Flagstaff, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The 1-26 has a fabric-covered aft fuselage on early examples. This is how the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 187
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A15B7C (octal 50255574)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00484182
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fritz Richard R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1962
Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1962
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N187JG links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 581 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Flagstaff, AZ 135 aircraft registered in this town
- Flagstaff Pulliam Airport · FLG
- Arizona 8,435 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 12 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N187JG, 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 Fritz Richard R, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 187 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N187JG according to the deregistered file. [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 N187JG. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data