Cessna 150L
N498AK is a Cessna 150L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ketchikan, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 29, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 150L · all 150Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 15072505
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A62DDA (octal 51426732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · March 29, 1971
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00692974
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thompson James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3817 Evergreen Ave
Ketchikan, AK 99901-5333
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 N498AK, 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 Thompson James A, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated March 29, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15072505 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N498AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T182T (serial T18208409, cancelled April 17, 2014). 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 N498AK. 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