Cessna 150M
N8168U is a Cessna 150M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Three Rivers, Michigan. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 11, 1976. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 150M · all 150Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 15077905
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2329 (octal 52621451)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · February 11, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00030112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1400 8Th St
Three Rivers, MI 49093-1730
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8168U, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated February 11, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15077905 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8168U according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 31, 2026). [3]
2 NTSB records under N8168U: Accident on July 7, 1997 at Chico, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 22, 1982 at Corvallis, OR: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
failure of the student pilot to maintain adequate airspeed during a go-around. Trees at the departure end of the runway were a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA251 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA82DA124 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