{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1971-06-04","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1990-10-11","city":"BLAIRSTOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":57,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-16"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050124","mode_s_code":"50031553","mode_s_hex":"A0336B","model":"SGS 1-26E","n_number":"N1118S","name":"AERO CLUB ALBATROSS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1118S is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aero Club Albatross INC, a corporation in Blairstown, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 1990 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 4, 1971. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aero Club Albatross INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 1990, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated June 4, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 508 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N1118S according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N1118S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"508","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"36 LAMBERT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00991080","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1118S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"07825"}