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N8440U

Cessna 150M

Valid New York

N8440U 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 East Amherst, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 1988 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 10, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
150M · all 150Ms and related versions
Serial number
15077936
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
AB9120 (octal 52710440)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 18, 1988
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · February 10, 1976
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00233001

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nicholls Donald B
Type
Individual
Address
296 Bramblewood Lane
East Amherst, NY 14051

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

1965-02-14Cessna 172F · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8440U, 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 Nicholls Donald B, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 1988, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated February 10, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15077936 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8440U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172F (serial 17252340, cancelled February 14, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8440U. 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