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Schweizer SGU-1-19A
N40278 is a Schweizer SGU-1-19A, a glider with no engine, built in 1947. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 1998 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGU-1-19A · all SGU-1-19As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. Steel-tube fuselage under fabric, aluminium wings. This is how the Schweizer SGU-1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 52A
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B77D (octal 51133575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 1998
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00118948
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clayton Harry L
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11701 e 69Th St N
Wichita, KS 67226-8512 - Co-owners
- Erlenwein Susan D
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N40278 links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer SGU-1 20 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wichita, KS 1,309 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer SGU-1 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer SGU-1 7 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N40278.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N40278, 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 Clayton Harry L, a co-owned, certificate issued July 14, 1998, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40278 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 N40278. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data