Schweizer SGS 1-26B
N5839V is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine, built in 1964. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Montague, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated August 28, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 272
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A784B4 (octal 51702264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · August 28, 1964
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00171705
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fueston Vernon A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 820 Old Montague Rd
Montague, CA 96064-9280
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 N5839V, 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 Fueston Vernon A, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated August 28, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5839V 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 N5839V: Accident on July 8, 2015 at Silver Springs, NV: no 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 26B · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision making in adverse weather conditions, which resulted in an encounter with weather and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA172 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