Mystery of crashed glider in Arizona

On Dec 11, 8:55*am, ContestID67 wrote:
I called the FAA registry. *Looks like the Jordon Reid connection is
the key to this mystery. *Tom "5Z" you are the winner.

A very nice lady at the FAA said that the tail number had been used
three times. *A Cessna 421C (current), Moni before that (distroyed)
and then a "glider" which was registered to Jordon E Reid of Tucson,
AZ! * Bingo.

She didn't have a model number but "Reid" as a manufacturer does show
up in the FAA database as a "RGS-1" glider as mentioned earlier, 1
seat. *Serial number is 0001 so it is obviously a one-off homebuilt.
The detailed information on the craft is being sent to me but it is in
"Federal Storage" and will take weeks to be dug up.

RGS-1 = Reid Gordon Special #1???

Now the next question - how did it come to be lying next to a fence in
such disrepair. *Wind storm as someone thought? *It seems to be in
relatively good repair for something that might have tumbled end over
end.

- John DeRosa

Well done guys! But it's not over yet. The design looks heavily
influenced by Schreder, maybe HP-17ish. Maybe Bob can turn up
something in his records. Some correspondence?

Darryl