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N9JK

Schweizer SGS 1-35

Valid Alabama

N9JK is a Schweizer SGS 1-35, a glider with no engine, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Trussville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 1987 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated January 16, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
SGS 1-35 · all SGS 1-35s and related versions
Serial number
18
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AC6B4C (octal 53065514)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 31, 1987
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Glider · January 16, 1975
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00071491

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Stewart James D
Type
Individual
Address
446 Woodward Rd
Trussville, AL 35173-3215

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9JK, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Stewart James D, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 1987, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for glider, dated January 16, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9JK according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9JK: Accident on June 2, 1985 at Middletown, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC85FHM01Accident on June 2, 1985 at Middletown, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer SGS-1-35 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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