{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1974-10-08","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-03-23","city":"ZEBULON","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","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":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050124","mode_s_code":"50733360","mode_s_hex":"A3B6F0","model":"SGS 1-26E","n_number":"N33873","name":"NORTH CAROLINA SOARING ASSOCIATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Wake Forest","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-04-15","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ERA23LA207","probable_cause":"The student pilot\u2019s failure to maintain airspeed during the landing approach, which resulted in an exceedance of the glider\u2019s critical angle of attack, an aerodynamic stall, and a loss of control.","registration":"N33873","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on April 15, 2023 at Wake Forest, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N33873 is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to North Carolina Soaring Association, a corporation in Zebulon, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated October 8, 1974.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to North Carolina Soaring Association, a corporation, certificate issued March 23, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated October 8, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 615 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N33873 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 65-TF (serial F9771T, cancelled May 17, 1941). 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":"1 NTSB record under N33873: Accident on April 15, 2023 at Wake Forest, NC: minor 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"615","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"66 SWETTS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00172353","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N33873","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"275976037"}