J&J Ultralights SEA WING
N2157 is a J&J Ultralights SEA WING, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mchenry, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2007 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 25, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- J&J Ultralights
- Model
- SEA WING · all SEA WINGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2157
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A1CF62 (octal 50347542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2007
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00395559
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schams Gregory P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2903 Sterling Dr
Mchenry, IL 60050-2662
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2157, 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 Schams Gregory P, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2007, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 2007, 7 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2157 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Waggon Und Maschinenbau PHOEBUS C (serial 880, cancelled November 3, 2003); Standard Aircraft Co LAND PLANE (serial 17, cancelled August 7, 1928). 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]
1 NTSB record under N2157: Accident on July 3, 1998 at Perry, SC: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mbb PHOEBUS C · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of control during takeoff, leading to an in-flight collision with the ground. A factor was the pilot's lack of recent experience in a high performance glider.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98LA090 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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