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N5BW

Cessna 150J

N5BW 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 Wilmington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 1992 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 5, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
150J · all 150Js and related versions
Serial number
15069426
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
A6356C (octal 51432554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 14, 1992
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · September 5, 1968
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00770825

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thompson Aubrey C
Type
Individual
Address
1704 Princess St
Wilmington, NC 28405

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5BW, 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 Thompson Aubrey C, an individual, certificate issued December 14, 1992, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated September 5, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15069426 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5BW 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5BW: Accident on September 23, 1990 at Albemarle, NC: 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

ATL90LA178Accident on September 23, 1990 at Albemarle, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150J · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S NOT OBTAINING AN ADEQUATE FUEL SUPPLY FOR HIS PLANNED FLIGHT, RESULTING IN FUEL EXHAUSTION.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL90LA178 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