Schweizer SGS 1-26C
N9839E is a Schweizer SGS 1-26C, a glider with no engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Elgin, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-26C · all SGS 1-26Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 270
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 58 mph
- Transponder code
- ADB9E1 (octal 53334741)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 10, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00423690
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walenda Richard
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 920 Annandale Dr
Elgin, IL 60123-6502 - Co-owners
- Tomczyk Gregory A
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 N9839E, 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 Walenda Richard, a co-owned, certificate issued June 13, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9839E 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 N9839E: Accident on June 1, 2025 at Hampshire, IL: 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 1-26C · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper altitude during the approach, which resulted in overshooting the landing area, a runway excursion, and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA202 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