Schweizer SGS 1-26C
N8612R is a Schweizer SGS 1-26C, a glider with no engine, built in 1961. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Independence Aviation LLC, an LLC in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 28, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26C · all SGS 1-26Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 139
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD53C (octal 52752474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 28, 1962
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00112521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Independence Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4905 Airport Rd
Independence, OR 97351-9620
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8612R, 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 Independence Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 6, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 28, 1962, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8612R 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 N8612R. 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 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