{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-12-19","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-01-24","city":"BRACKETTVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"271","cruise_speed_mph":57,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-10","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050124","mode_s_code":"50543267","mode_s_hex":"A2C6B7","model":"SGS 1-26E","n_number":"N2781H","name":"BJORK RICHARD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WAYNESBORO","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-04-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC97LA074","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.","registration":"N2781H","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on April 13, 1997 at Waynesboro, VA: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"WAYNESBORO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-06-23","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC92LA126","probable_cause":"THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL WHILE ON APPROACH.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE, AN IMPROPERLY PLANNED APPROACH, AND THE GUSTY WINDS.","registration":"N2781H","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on June 23, 1992 at Waynesboro, VA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2781H is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Brackettville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated December 19, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bjork Richard, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated December 19, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 671 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2781H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research 415-C (serial 3406, cancelled August 29, 1969). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"2 NTSB records under N2781H: Accident on April 13, 1997 at Waynesboro, VA: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on June 23, 1992 at Waynesboro, VA: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"671","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1238","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00890183","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2781H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"788321238"}