Schweizer SGS 1-23H
N3908A is a Schweizer SGS 1-23H, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 18, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-23H · all SGS 1-23Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 45
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A4863A (octal 51103072)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 18, 1960
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00310604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gingras John T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22385 Courtlandt Ct
Tehachapi, CA 93561-7715
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3908A, 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 Gingras John T, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3908A 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 N3908A. 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