Schweizer SGS 1-26A
N8693R is a Schweizer SGS 1-26A, a glider with no engine, built in 1963. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Gehrlein Rodney L, a partnership in Waterford, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; amateur built; exhibition, dated January 31, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26A · all SGS 1-26As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The 1-26 has a fabric-covered aft fuselage on early examples. This is how the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 213
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF317 (octal 52771427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; Amateur built; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 423 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 31, 1979
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00712311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gehrlein Rodney L
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9001 Hamot Rd
Waterford, PA 16441-2701 - Co-owners
- Gehrlein Jay L
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8693R links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 581 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Gehrlein Rodney L 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Waterford, PA 21 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer SGS 1 gliders (1-26, 1-34, 1-35, 1-36) 12 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N8693R, 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 Gehrlein Rodney L, a partnership, certificate issued July 29, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 1979, 16 years after the 1963 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8693R 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 N8693R. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data