Schweizer SGS 1-26B
N8657R is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine, built in 1963. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Moses Lake, Washington. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 3, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 193
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE4C7 (octal 52762307)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 3, 1963
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00612401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11905 Road 4 NE
Moses Lake, WA 98837-4914
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 N8657R, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 3, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 193 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8657R 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 N8657R: Accident on April 26, 2025 at Ontario, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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
The pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack during the final approach to land, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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