(full Sweepstakes standings and flights)   Writing this summary will be my final act as Sweeps Sheriff. It’s been an enjoyable 17 years, but it is time to hand over the fun to another 1-26er. Steve Snyder has very graciously accepted the challenge. I know he will bring a fresh look to the Sweeps […]

The 2025 1-26 Championships (not “Nationals”) will be hosted by the Merlin Soaring Club at the Merlin Aerodrome southwest of Richmond, VA. http://www.merlinaero.org/1-26-championships.html https://www.airnav.com/airport/2VA3 Merlin Aerodrome, VA May 7-14 May 5-6 Practice Days Yes, we realize this spans the Mother’s Day weekend, but it was unavoidable when the proposed dates were changed from June to […]

The H. Marshall Claybourn Memorial Trophy is awarded to the Schweizer 1-26 pilot who completes the longest straight-out flight of the year. There were twenty Sweepstakes flights of over one hundred miles in 2024, but only five of those were straight outs. You can now add 2024 to Jim Neff’s tally of Claybourn wins.  His […]

(full Sweepstakes standings and flights) With the same number of pilots (16) as in 2023 we had more flights in 2024 (80) than we had in 2023. The top two classes, Diamond and Gold, showed the usual suspects flying their top flights. The Bronze class showed two new pilots to the Sweeps this year which […]

We are happy to announce the site of the 2024 1-26 Championships will be in Hamilton, Texas – July 31 – August 8th.   These dates were selected to avoid a conflict with Oshkosh before the contest and the Worlds in Uvalde starting 8/9.  Spring dates were looked at, but after three years of Spring washouts […]