Schweizer SGS 1-26
N8615R is a Schweizer SGS 1-26, a glider with no engine, built in 1961. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Kinards, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 22, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26 · all SGS 1-26s and related versions
- Serial number
- 142
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD5A5 (octal 52752645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 22, 1961
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00642491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sexton James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2565 Highway 560
Kinards, SC 29355-9096
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8615R, 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 Sexton James R, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated November 22, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8615R 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 N8615R. 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