{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1965-09-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-06-13","city":"ELGIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"089","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":"2031-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-06-13","maker":"Schweizer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHWEIZER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8050120","mode_s_code":"53334741","mode_s_hex":"ADB9E1","model":"SGS 1-26C","n_number":"N9839E","name":"WALENDA RICHARD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Hampshire","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-06-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN25LA202","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain a proper altitude during the approach, which resulted in overshooting the landing area, a runway excursion, and impact with terrain.","registration":"N9839E","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on June 1, 2025 at Hampshire, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"TOMCZYK GREGORY A","plain_english":"N9839E is a Schweizer SGS 1-26C, a glider with no engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Elgin, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Walenda Richard, a co-owned, certificate issued June 13, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 270 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9839E 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 N9839E: Accident on June 1, 2025 at Hampshire, IL: no 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"270","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"920 ANNANDALE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00423690","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9839E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"601236502"}