Cessna 150J
N51258 is a Cessna 150J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Portage, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 14, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 150J · all 150Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 15069877
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A66C05 (octal 51466005)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · November 14, 1968
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00351385
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Otis
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 572 West Rd
Portage, ME 04768
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.
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The public federal record on N51258, 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 Nelson Otis, an individual, certificate issued February 23, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 14, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15069877 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51258 according to the deregistered file. [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 N51258: Accident on January 12, 1998 at Gaylord, MI: 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 150J · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudging the flare leading to a hard landing, and the kit manufacturer's (Supplemental Type Certificate holder's) inadequate design leading to a corrosion stress fracture of the landing gear attachment. A factor was the landing gear attachment corroded.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA078 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data