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N48SU

Cessna 152

Valid Indiana

N48SU is a Cessna 152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Griffith Aviation INC, a corporation in Griffith, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 22, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
152 · all 152s and related versions
Serial number
15285186
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A5E7E3 (octal 51363743)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 22, 2016
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · June 22, 1981
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00191446

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Griffith Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1705 E Main St
Griffith, IN 46319-2941

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N48SU, 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 Griffith Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated June 22, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15285186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N48SU according to the deregistered file. [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 N48SU. 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