Cessna 152
N48836 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 Messenger Air LTD, a corporation in Madrid, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 23, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15280993
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A60931 (octal 51404461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · November 23, 1977
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00270435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Messenger Air LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 802 E 8Th St
Madrid, IA 50156-1700
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N48836, 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 Messenger Air LTD, a corporation, certificate issued March 6, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 23, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15280993 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48836 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft DCO-65 (serial 5350, cancelled October 29, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48836. 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 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