Schweizer SGS 1-26E
N33873 is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to North Carolina Soaring Association, a corporation in Zebulon, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated October 8, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26E · all SGS 1-26Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 615
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 57 mph
- Transponder code
- A3B6F0 (octal 50733360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · October 8, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00172353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Carolina Soaring Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 66 Swetts Dr
Zebulon, NC 27597-6037
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 N33873, 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 North Carolina Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued March 23, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated October 8, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 615 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N33873 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 65-TF (serial F9771T, cancelled May 17, 1941). 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 N33873: Accident on April 15, 2023 at Wake Forest, NC: minor 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 student pilot’s failure to maintain airspeed during the landing approach, which resulted in an exceedance of the glider’s critical angle of attack, an aerodynamic stall, and a loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA207 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