Schweizer SGS 1-26A
N3874A is a Schweizer SGS 1-26A, a glider with no engine, built in 1956. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grant Park, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2003 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 28, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26A · all SGS 1-26As and related versions
- Serial number
- 35
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A47830 (octal 51074060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2003
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00330424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mussman Craig
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10250 N 16000E Rd
Grant Park, IL 60940-5151 - Co-owners
- Smith Ted
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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 N3874A, 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 Mussman Craig, a co-owned, certificate issued March 27, 2003, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 28, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 35 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3874A 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 N3874A. 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