Cessna 152
N48878 is a Cessna 152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kilo Lima Investments LLC, an LLC in Huntington Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 17, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15281023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A609BF (octal 51404677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · May 17, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00240465
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kilo Lima Investments LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9612 Dawning Dr
Huntington Beach, CA 92646-7534
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 N48878, 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 Kilo Lima Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 11, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated May 17, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15281023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48878 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-2958, cancelled October 21, 1955). 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 N48878: Accident on February 18, 1998 at Americus, GA: 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
the pilot's improper planning/decision, which led to fuel exhaustion, loss of engine power, and a forced landing on unprepared terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98LA046 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