J&J Ultralights SEAWING
N285SW is a J&J Ultralights SEAWING, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wimberley, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 15, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- J&J Ultralights
- Model
- SEAWING · all SEAWINGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10001234582
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A2E233 (octal 50561063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · August 15, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00359689
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tenny James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 100 Burnett Ranch Rd
Wimberley, TX 78676-4635
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 N285SW, 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 Tenny James, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 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 10001234582 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N285SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-2B5B (serial 22485, cancelled June 27, 2003). 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 N285SW: Accident on December 30, 2021 at Golden, MO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: J&J Ultralights SEAWING · operated under 091
The noncertificated pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control while aggressively maneuvering at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA087 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