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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Cessna 150L
N40HF is a Cessna 150L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Berkeley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated October 29, 1991.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 6:05 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 150L · all 150Ls 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. This is how the Cessna 150 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
- 15072309
- 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 · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A4AAFD (octal 51125375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 133 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 29, 1991
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00990924
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vogel Essex Nathaniel B
- 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
- 1422 66Th St
Berkeley, CA 94702-2703
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 N40HF links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 150 7,993 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
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,311 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Berkeley, CA 39 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 150 34 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 150 592 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 150 240 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N40HF is now · Last seen Wednesday at 6:05 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N40HF.json.
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The public federal record on N40HF, 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 Vogel Essex Nathaniel B, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15072309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40HF 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 N40HF. 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 October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data