Schweizer SGS 1-26B
N8683R 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 Salisbury, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 31, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26B · all SGS 1-26Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 214
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ABEF60 (octal 52767540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 31, 1963
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00932772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daye Jeffrey E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 790 Cantiberry Dr
Salisbury, NC 28146-3246
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 N8683R, 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 Daye Jeffrey E, an individual, certificate issued September 3, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 31, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 214 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8683R 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 N8683R: Accident on May 30, 2015 at Mocksville, NC: no 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 glider pilot over-ran the runway and impacted a structure after encountering a strong updraft on short final.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA098 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data