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N5531M

Cessna 152

Valid Nevada

N5531M 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 co-owned owners in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 10, 1980. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
152 · all 152s and related versions
Serial number
15284606
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1980
Transponder code
A70D17 (octal 51606427)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 25, 2002
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · September 10, 1980
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00173485

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Peterson Jay O
Type
Co-owned
Address
5485 Ramillete Rd
Las Vegas, NV 89120-3321
Co-owners
Peterson Sharon A

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 1

2026-09-16Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1972-01-02Aero Commander 100 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5531M, 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 Peterson Jay O, a co-owned, certificate issued June 25, 2002, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated September 10, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15284606 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5531M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 100 (serial 117, cancelled January 2, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5531M: Accident on March 7, 1996 at Las Vegas, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX96LA127Accident on March 7, 1996 at Las Vegas, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091

the student pilot's improper flare and improper recover from a bounced landing, which resulted in a hard landing and collapse of the nose gear. A factor relating to the accident was: the flight instructor's inadequate instruction concerning recovery from bounced landings.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA127 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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