{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1974-06-07","airworthiness_ops":"Glider","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-19","city":"NEW CASTLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"045","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":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-19","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050124","mode_s_code":"51735532","mode_s_hex":"A7BB5A","model":"SGS 1-26E","n_number":"N598CJ","name":"BLUE RIDGE SOARING SOCIETY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N598CJ is a Schweizer SGS 1-26E, a glider with no engine, built in 1974. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Blue Ridge Soaring Society, a corporation in New Castle, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated June 7, 1974.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Blue Ridge Soaring Society, a corporation, certificate issued February 19, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for glider, dated June 7, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 598 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N598CJ 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N598CJ. 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":"598","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 787","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00962826","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N598CJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"241270787"}