The 1-26 Association Blog
1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Wing Rebuild
Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...
1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Fuselage Rebuild
Articles in this Series Introduction Pickup Getting Started Fuselage Rebuild Wing Rebuild Back in the Air 2014 SSA Convention Display To access this post, you must purchase Internation...
1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Getting Started
These are all the parts it takes to put the fuselage back together again other than the frame. At this point I hadn’t taken the fabric off the wings yet so the few moving parts in them are not includ...
1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Pick Up
To establish a baseline for the project here are pictures (top) of what the sailplane looked like when it was purchased by my father in November 1962 for $256 after it had crashed when owned by the Sa...
1-26A Restoration by Andy By Andy Kecskes
This website is a description of the restoration of a Schweizer 1-26A (N3865A) single place sailplane started in December 2009. The project was completed in February 2014, the paperwork completed wi...
1-26 Image Gallery Archive
If you’d like more information about what happened to the “Old Gallery”, please see the following blog post: Hey Admin, where is the old image gallery? Id you would like to download all of the image f...
Hey Admin, where is the old image gallery?
Hello 1-26 Association Members, As you know, the 1-26 Association website went through a major overhaul. One of the tasks was to ensure that image gallery made it to the new website. This website howe...
1-26 Display at the National Soaring Museum
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A short flight in my 1-26
A short flight in my SGS 1-26. Conditions were not very good, this was late in the day and most clouds were overdeveloped and thermals are dying. To access this post, you must purchase Int...
An Hour in the Schweizer 1-26
Flying my 1-26E, #599, Clermont, FL.. showed up a little late and missed the good stuff but it was nice to fly and see some of my fellow glider pilots at the airport. To access this post, ...