Schweizer SGS 1-26E
N598CJ is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Blue Ridge Soaring Society, a corporation in New Castle, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 7, 1974.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26E · all SGS 1-26Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The 1-26 has a fabric-covered aft fuselage on early examples. This is how the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 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
- 598
- 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
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 57 mph
- Transponder code
- A7BB5A (octal 51735532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 19, 2025
- 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 · GliderFAA certificate purpose code G (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 7, 1974
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00962826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Ridge Soaring Society (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 787
New Castle, VA 24127-0787
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N598CJ links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 581 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Blue Ridge Soaring Society 8 aircraft in the fleet
- New Castle, VA 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 12 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N598CJ, 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 Blue Ridge Soaring Society, a corporation, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated June 7, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 598 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N598CJ 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 N598CJ. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data