Schweizer SGS 1-26B
N686U is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Big Bear City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 305
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- A91B43 (octal 52215503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00660097
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Krause Wesley A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 332 Downey Dr
Big Bear City, CA 92314-9250
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 N686U, 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 Krause Wesley A, an individual, certificate issued April 22, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 305 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N686U 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 N686U: Accident on April 28, 1986 at Julian, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86FA114 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