Cessna 152
N68197 is a Cessna 152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Smtm Holdings INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 18, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15282178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A90AA1 (octal 52205241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 18, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00020027
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smtm Holdings INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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.
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The public federal record on N68197, 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 Smtm Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 18, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15282178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68197 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]
1 NTSB record under N68197: Accident on February 19, 2000 at Leesburg, FL: 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 pilot's inadequate pre-flight planning resulting in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL00LA027 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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