Arlington SISU 1A
N252J is an Arlington SISU 1A, a glider with no engine, built in 1964. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arlington
- Model
- SISU 1A · all SISU 1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 105
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A25FB4 (octal 50457664)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 1977
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00055068
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- P. O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125
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.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N252J, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
This airframe (serial 105) previously flew as N252JB. N252JB cancelled December 6, 1988. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N252J 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]
2 NTSB records under N252JB: Accident on May 24, 2012 at Sanford, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 15, 1988 at Borrego Springs, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lydon Patrick F SEAREY · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to ensure that the landing gear was retracted for the water landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12CA361 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arlington SISU 1A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89DUM01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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