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Cessna 120
N3151N is a Cessna 120, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crystal, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 7, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 120 · all 120s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Fabric-covered wings on most 120s. This is how the Cessna 120 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
- 13409
- 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 C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A35BEC (octal 50655754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 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 · April 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00601543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wayman Richard
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6000 Douglas Dr N
Crystal, MN 55429-2314
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 N3151N links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 120 660 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C85 series 4,671 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Crystal, MN 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,936 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 120 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 120 108 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 120 90 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C85 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3151N, 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 Wayman Richard, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 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 13409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3151N 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 N3151N: Accident on August 24, 2025 at Taylor, AZ: no 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 120 · operated under 091
On August 24, 2025, about 0711 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 120, N3151N, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Taylor, Arizona. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot dipped the fuel tanks before the flight and observed that the left tank was empty and the right tank contained about 10.5 gallons of fuel, a quantity that had previously provided about 1.5 hours of flight time with a 30 to 60 minute reserve. The right tank was selected for the entire flight.…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data