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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26A · all SGS 1-26As and related versions
- Serial number
- 213
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF317 (octal 52771427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Amateur built; Exhibition · January 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00712311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gehrlein Rodney L
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 9001 Hamot Rd
Waterford, PA 16441-2701 - Co-owners
- Gehrlein Jay L
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 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 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