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N8649R

Schweizer SGS 1-26B

N8649R is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 27, 1962.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
Serial number
186
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
58 mph
Transponder code
ABE156 (octal 52760526)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 18, 2017
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · July 27, 1962
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00902401

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pickens Edward Cleveland
Type
Individual
Address
4130 Earl Grey Ct
Raleigh, NC 27612-2323

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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 N8649R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pickens Edward Cleveland, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated July 27, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8649R according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8649R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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