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N4KC

Schweizer SGS 1-26C

Valid New York

N4KC is a Schweizer SGS 1-26C, a glider with no engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Niagara Soaring Club, a corporation in Williamsville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 2, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 1-26C · all SGS 1-26Cs and related versions
Serial number
295
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
58 mph
Transponder code
A4A8D3 (octal 51124323)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 26, 2014
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · April 2, 1965
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00550914

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Niagara Soaring Club
Type
Corporation
Address
248 Hopkins Rd
Williamsville, NY 14221-3436

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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 N4KC, 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 Niagara Soaring Club, a corporation, certificate issued February 26, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated April 2, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 295 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4KC 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 N4KC. 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