Cessna 152
N49288 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 Wisconsin Aviation INC, a corporation in Watertown, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 1985 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated January 19, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15281226
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A61B17 (octal 51415427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 1985
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · January 19, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00370595
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wisconsin Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1741 River Drive
Watertown, WI 53094
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N49288, 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 Wisconsin Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 1, 1985, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated January 19, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15281226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N49288 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas C-54A (serial 10337, cancelled July 15, 1952); Boeing PT-17 (serial 75-1612, cancelled June 22, 1946). 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 N49288: Accident on February 10, 1991 at Osseo, WI: 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
FUEL EXHAUSTION WHICH OCCURRED WHEN THE PILOT BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE, THE TERRAIN CONDITION, AND A FENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA096 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