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N48610

Cessna 152

Valid Alabama

N48610 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 Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity, a government body in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 22, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
152 · all 152s and related versions
Serial number
15280922
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1977
Transponder code
A60177 (octal 51400567)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 1, 2002
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · November 22, 1977
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00360365

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity
Type
Government
Address
Bldg 4828 Hale Rd
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1945-09-14Lockheed VEGA 5C · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N48610, 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 Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity, a government body, certificate issued November 1, 2002, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated November 22, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15280922 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N48610 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed VEGA 5C (serial 210, cancelled September 14, 1945). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N48610. 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