Schweizer SGS 1-26B
N2444W is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 11, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 363
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A241D4 (octal 50440724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · May 11, 1967
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00793202
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bickers Donald S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1301 Tarklin Valley Rd
Knoxville, TN 37920-9402
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N2444W, 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 Bickers Donald S, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated May 11, 1967, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 363 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2444W 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 N2444W. 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