{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1963-05-03","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"MOSES LAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":58,"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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-03","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050118","mode_s_code":"52762307","mode_s_hex":"ABE4C7","model":"SGS 1-26B","n_number":"N8657R","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Ontario","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-04-26","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR25LA144","probable_cause":"The pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack during the final approach to land, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.","registration":"N8657R","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on April 26, 2025 at Ontario, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8657R is a Schweizer SGS 1-26B, a glider with no engine, built in 1963. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Moses Lake, Washington. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 3, 1963.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated May 3, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 193 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8657R 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 N8657R: Accident on April 26, 2025 at Ontario, OR: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"193","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"11905 ROAD 4 NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00612401","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8657R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"988374914"}
