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N89963

Cessna 152

N89963 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 co-owned owners in Ione, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 6, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
152 · all 152s and related versions
Serial number
15282931
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Transponder code
AC6A09 (octal 53065011)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 7, 2002
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · December 6, 1978
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00691501

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wardall Wesley David
Type
Co-owned
Address
17069 Lambert Rd
Ione, CA 95640-9527
Co-owners
Wardall Janet Louise

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

1949-06-17Cessna 140 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N89963, 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 Wardall Wesley David, a co-owned, certificate issued February 7, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated December 6, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15282931 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N89963 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9015, cancelled June 17, 1949). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N89963: Accident on January 31, 1982 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW82DA052Accident on January 31, 1982 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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