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N557SH

Cessna 150L

Valid Colorado

N557SH 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 United States Air Force, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 1989 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 23, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
150L · all 150Ls and related versions
Serial number
15072617
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
A71B04 (octal 51615404)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 23, 1989
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · June 23, 1971
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00203550

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Air Force
Type
Government
Address
34Th Og/Ogq
9206 Airfield Dr Ste 1
Usaf Academy, CO 80840-2060
Co-owners
United States 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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N557SH, 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 United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued October 23, 1989, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated June 23, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15072617 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N557SH according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N557SH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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