Schweizer SGS 1-26A
N2701Z is a Schweizer SGS 1-26A, a glider with no engine, built in 1964. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Redlands, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated September 8, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26A · all SGS 1-26As and related versions
- Serial number
- 222
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A2A90F (octal 50524417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · September 8, 1966
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00873512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lessard George
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 31543 Highview Dr
Redlands, CA 92373-7574
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.
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The public federal record on N2701Z, 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 Lessard George, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated September 8, 1966, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2701Z 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]
1 NTSB record under N2701Z: Accident on July 14, 2009 at Lake Riverside, CA: no 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 1-26A · operated under 091
A loss of lift which necessitated a forced landing in a field.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09CA344 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data