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N3978P

Cessna 152

N3978P is a Cessna 152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rllng Hls Est, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 19, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
152 · all 152s and related versions
Serial number
15279647
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1977
Transponder code
A4A048 (octal 51120110)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 29, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 29, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · May 19, 1977
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00482877

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nicklas William T
Type
Co-owned
Address
13 Dorado Pl
Rllng Hls Est, CA 90274-4241
Co-owners
Nicklas Jane E

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N3978P, 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 Nicklas William T, a co-owned, certificate issued January 29, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated May 19, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15279647 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3978P 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3978P. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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