Schweizer SGS 2-33A
N34396 is a Schweizer SGS 2-33A, a glider with no engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Zebulon, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 15, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 2-33A · all SGS 2-33As and related versions
- Serial number
- 416
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- A3CC25 (octal 50746045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · December 15, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00962523
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swett Frank M
- Type
- Individual
- 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.
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The public federal record on N34396, 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 Swett Frank M, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2002, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated December 15, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N34396 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 N34396: Accident on October 26, 1991 at Waynesboro, VA: 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 2-33A · operated under 091
IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION BY THE INSTRUCTOR (CFI). CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INSTRUCTOR'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY MONITOR THE STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO92LA003 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