Schweizer SGS 2-33A
N65918 is a Schweizer SGS 2-33A, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Long Island Soaring Association, a corporation in Shirley, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated November 1, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 2-33A · all SGS 2-33As and related versions
- Serial number
- 358
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 73 mph
- Transponder code
- A8B0C5 (octal 52130305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · November 1, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00492786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Long Island Soaring Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 222 Grand Ave
Shirley, NY 11967-1936
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N65918, 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 Long Island Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued July 19, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated November 1, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 358 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65918 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 8762, cancelled April 18, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N65918: Accident on June 11, 1998 at North Plains, OR: 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 2-33A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control and his failure to maintain clearance from a pole. Contributing factors were rain and an overcast which resulted in less than optimal conditions to detect the pole.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA98LA094 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
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