Schweizer SGS 1-26C
N3885A is a Schweizer SGS 1-26C, a glider with no engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 25, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26C · all SGS 1-26Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 50
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A47C0A (octal 51076012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · June 25, 1970
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00760494
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Decker Lane M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9004 Caminito Vera
San Diego, CA 92126-2824
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 N3885A, 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 Decker Lane M, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 25, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3885A 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 N3885A: Accident on June 22, 1986 at Aguanga, CA: serious 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 1-26C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX86LA270 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