Cessna 152
N6460L 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 Richmor Aviation INC, a corporation in Scotia, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 1982 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 7, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s 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 152 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
- 15284401
- 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 · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A87DE8 (octal 52076750)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 1982
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · April 7, 1980
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00772366
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richmor Aviation INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19 Airport Road
Scotia, NY 12302
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
Connections how N6460L links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 152 1,636 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,132 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Richmor Aviation INC 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Scotia, NY 16 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 152 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 152 754 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 152 148 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
- Where N6460L is now · Last seen today at 11:59 am.
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The public federal record on N6460L, 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 Richmor Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 1982, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated April 7, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15284401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6460L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31 (serial 31-416, cancelled May 1, 1969). 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 N6460L: Accident on March 23, 1994 at Amherst, MA: 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 INADVERTENTLY BECOMING LOST, AND THE SUBSEQUENT PRECAUTIONARY LANDING IN A FIELD, RESULTING IN A COLLISION WITH SOFT TERRAIN AND NOSE OVER.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data