Cessna 152
N5488M is a Cessna 152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 28, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15284596
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A6F920 (octal 51574440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 28, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00323315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Person Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1600 Lenape Rd
West Chester, PA 19382-6823
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5488M, 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 Person Michael, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 28, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15284596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5488M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D1 (serial 10788, cancelled August 3, 1965). 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 N5488M: Accident on February 27, 1992 at Knightdale, NC: 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
THE STUDENT PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE LANDING ROLL. FACTOR(S) IN THIS ACCIDENT WERE: THE CROSSWIND CONDITIONS PREVAILING AT THE AIRPORT, AND THE SOFT, MUDDY TERRAIN CONDITIONS ADJACENT TO THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92LA050 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