Schweizer SGS 1-35C
N2817H is a Schweizer SGS 1-35C, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lexington, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 2, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-35C · all SGS 1-35Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 77
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2D507 (octal 50552407)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 2, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00340313
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elliott Donald E III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2061
Lexington, SC 29071-2061
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 N2817H, 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 Elliott Donald E III, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 77 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2817H 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 N2817H: Accident on June 5, 2022 at Midlothian, TX: fatal (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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer SGS135 · operated under 091
The pilot’s incapacitation by an aortic dissection (natural disease).
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
