Frank O Schumpert MJ-80
N1157N is a Frank O Schumpert MJ-80, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Frank O Schumpert
- Model
- MJ-80
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A04220 (octal 50041040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01466528
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schumpert Frank O
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 6039 Northridge Rd
Columbia, SC 29206-4337
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1157N, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Schumpert Frank O, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1157N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20J (serial 24-1288, cancelled July 12, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
2 NTSB records under N1157N: Accident on April 28, 2017 at Cedar Key, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 17, 2006 at Temecula, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20J · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to follow the manufacturer’s go-around procedure, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20J · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to flare that resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data