Schweizer SGU 2-22
N3890A is a Schweizer SGU 2-22, a glider with no engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Marcos, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 11, 1957.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- SGU 2-22 · all SGU 2-22s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. Steel-tube fuselage under fabric, aluminium wings. This is how the Schweizer SGU 2 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
- 51
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A47F12 (octal 51077422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 16, 2026
- 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 · July 11, 1957
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00950504
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sullivan Terrence Michael II
- 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
- 1408 Madrid Trce
San Marcos, TX 78666-2853 - Co-owners
- Sullivan Barbara Beaty
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 N3890A links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer SGU 2 74 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- San Marcos, TX 89 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer SGU 2 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer SGU 2 8 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3890A.json.
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The public federal record on N3890A, 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 Sullivan Terrence Michael II, a co-owned, certificate issued October 28, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated July 11, 1957, consistent with the 1957 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 N3890A 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3890A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data