Schweizer SGS 1-26A
N3839A is a Schweizer SGS 1-26A, a glider with no engine, built in 1961. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bainbridge, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 17, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26A · all SGS 1-26As and related versions
- Serial number
- 107
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A46A03 (octal 51065003)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2011
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 17, 1961
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00050354
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walker William Hamilton
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 620 6Th Ramp
Bainbridge, GA 39817-1504
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N3839A, 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 Walker William Hamilton, an individual, certificate issued January 18, 2011, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 17, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3839A 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3839A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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