Schweizer SGS 1-35
N2851H is a Schweizer SGS 1-35, a glider with no engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Overland Park, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated January 16, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGS 1-35 · all SGS 1-35s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E311 (octal 50561421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · January 16, 1976
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00940423
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Leonard I III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13141 Bluejacket St
Overland Park, KS 66213-4632
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.
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The public federal record on N2851H, 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 Smith Leonard I III, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for glider, dated January 16, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2851H according to the deregistered file. [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 N2851H: Accident on June 20, 2021 at Wellington, CO: 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: Schweizer SGS 1-35 · operated under 091
The glider pilot’s loss of visual references during the landing approach resulting in an off-airport landing on rough sloping terrain.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data