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A Cessna 152, the same model family as N49461
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N49461

Cessna 152

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N49461 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 Blue Sky Aviation LLC, an LLC in Watkins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
152 · all 152s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 152 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
15281287
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A62238 (octal 51421070)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 19, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00190645

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue Sky Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
285 S Watkins Rd
Watkins, CO 80137-8710
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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1949-02-03Fairchild PT-19-AE · Valid registration

Connections how N49461 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Watkins, CO 50 aircraft registered in this town
  • Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N49461.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N49461, 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 Blue Sky Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 19, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15281287 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N49461 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild PT-19-AE (serial 3073AE, cancelled February 3, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N49461. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data