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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Cessna 150M
N557AW is a Cessna 150M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 1989 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 12, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 150M · all 150Ms and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 150 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
- 15077067
- 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 · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- A71981 (octal 51614601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 1989
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 12, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00311846
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 34Th Og/0Gq
9206 Airfield Dr Ste 1
Usaf Academy, CO 80840-2060 - Co-owners
- US Air Force Academy
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N557AW links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 150 7,993 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-200 series 8,790 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- United States Air Force 45 aircraft in the fleet
- Usaf Academy, CO 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 150 34 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 150 592 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 150 240 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 series 1 reports since 1995
- Where N557AW is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:56 am.
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The public federal record on N557AW, 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 United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued October 20, 1989, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 12, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15077067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N557AW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N557AW. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data