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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Swift Ltd S1
N818WA is a Swift Ltd S1, a glider with no engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Far Hills, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 15, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Swift Ltd
- Model
- S1
- Serial number
- 118
- 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
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AB2909 (octal 52624411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 15, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00845152
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talarek Kai C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 281 Douglas Rd
Far Hills, NJ 07931-2519
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N818WA links to the rest of the register
- Swift Ltd 3 aircraft on the register
- Far Hills, NJ 9 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,017 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N818WA, 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 Talarek Kai C, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 15, 2019, 25 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N818WA 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 N818WA. 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 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data