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N3852A

Schweizer SGS 1-26A

N3852A is a Schweizer SGS 1-26A, a glider with no engine, built in 1953. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Newton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 15, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 1-26A · all SGS 1-26As and related versions
Serial number
8
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1953
Cruising speed
58 mph
Transponder code
A4707C (octal 51070174)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 28, 2003
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 15, 1955
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00920364

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Johnson Gustav M
Type
Individual
Address
209 Greendell Rd
Newton, NJ 07860-5537

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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 N3852A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Johnson Gustav M, an individual, certificate issued April 28, 2003, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated August 15, 1955, consistent with the 1953 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3852A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3852A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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