{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1978-05-06","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-07-10","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":57,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"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":"50065462","mode_s_hex":"A06B32","model":"SGS 1-26E","n_number":"N126NK","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SAN JOSE","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-02-23","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA124","probable_cause":"THAT THE CERTIFIED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR'S (CFI) MISJUDGED APPROACH WHICH RESULTED IN A LONG LANDING, THE CFI'S IN-FLIGHT DECISION TO A GO-AROUND WITH PARTIAL POWER, AND THE FAILURE OF THE CFI TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL IN THE INITIAL CLIMB SEGMENT OF THE PARTIAL POWER GO-AROUND RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL.  CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE INSPECTION PERFORMED BY THE OPERATOR'S MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AFTER THE INITIAL STUCK VALVE DEFICIENCY AND THE DECISION OF THE CFI TO OPERATE THE AIRPLANE WITH A KNOWN DISCREPANCY.","registration":"N126NK","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 23, 1992 at San Jose, CA: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N126NK is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated May 6, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, a co-owned, certificate issued July 10, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 675 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N126NK according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N126NK: Accident on February 23, 1992 at San Jose, CA: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"675","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00123482","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N126NK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":""}