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A Cessna 210 Centurion, the same model family as N2157S
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026
N2157S

Cessna 210L

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N2157S is a Cessna 210L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 3, 1976.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
210L · all 210Ls and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 210 Centurion family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
21061118
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
87 mph
Transponder code
A1CF73 (octal 50347563)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 12, 2021
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 3, 1976
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00751522

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schlenker Wesley e
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
936 Knott Pl
Dallas, TX 75208-2612
Co-owners
Ellis Leonard L III / Jonathan Liechty Family Partnership / Silas Liechty Family Partnership / Mccloud James K

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.

Connections how N2157S links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2157S.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2157S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Schlenker Wesley e, a co-owned, certificate issued November 12, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 3, 1976, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21061118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2157S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N2157S: Accident on July 9, 2010 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 1, 1999 at Fayetteville, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

CEN10LA389Accident on July 9, 2010 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 210 · operated under 135

The failure of a hydraulic fluid line, which caused a loss of hydraulic pressure to the landing gear extension system and resulted in the partial collapse of the right main landing gear during touchdown.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

FTW00LA002Accident on October 1, 1999 at Fayetteville, AR: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 210L · operated under 091

The cause of the right main gear collapse was undetermined. A factor was the failure of the gear 'down & locked' switch resulting in a false 'down & locked' indication in the cockpit.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data