Cessna 152
N89038 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 an individual in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 30, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15282606
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- AC4836 (octal 53044066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · September 30, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00051741
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gross Matthew D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 289 E 5Th St #604
Saint Paul, MN 55101-1956
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N89038, 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 Gross Matthew D, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated September 30, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15282606 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N89038 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 8042, cancelled March 26, 1953). 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]
2 NTSB records under N89038: Accident on September 23, 1990 at Lakeville, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 6, 1989 at Grand Forks, ND: 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 152 · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTING TO FORCE THE AIRPLANE ONTO THE RUNWAY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO CORRECT A GROUND LOOP SWERVE. A LACK OF TOTAL FLIGHT EXPERIENCE IS CONSIDERED TO BE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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