Schweizer SGS 1-26E
N2997H is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Westerville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated October 31, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26E · all SGS 1-26Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 697
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 57 mph
- Transponder code
- A31A3E (octal 50615076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · October 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00250762
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moos Milton H Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 6586 Sunbury Rd
Westerville, OH 43082-8264 - Co-owners
- Moos Joan W Trustee
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2997H, 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 Moos Milton H Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued October 23, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated October 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2997H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C (serial 3622, cancelled June 7, 1962). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2997H: Accident on October 19, 2013 at Eighty Four, PA: serious 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 26E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed and glide path, which resulted in an overshoot, a hard landing, and a subsequent collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of total experience in make and model.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA031 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