Cessna 152
N48690 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 an individual in Williamsburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 2, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15280929
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A6028F (octal 51401217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · December 2, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00440395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chamberlin William C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2063 N Broomhead Rd
Williamsburg, MI 49690-9785
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N48690, 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 Chamberlin William C, an individual, certificate issued May 27, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated December 2, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15280929 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48690 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 10375, cancelled May 9, 1951). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N48690: Accident on March 7, 1990 at Alpena, MI: 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
STUDENT PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN POSITIVE DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL. THE STUDENT PILOT'S LACK OF FLIGHT EXPERIENCE WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI90LA095 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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