1-26A Restoration by Andy Kecskes – Back in the Air
Here is the final transition from ugly duckling to a beautiful soaring bird. The left image shows it in the paint shop after the initial coat of insignia white had been sprayed to provide the base f...
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...