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Cessna 150M
N9143U 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 Watertown, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 17, 1976.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 11:32 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 150M · all 150Ms and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 150 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 15078094
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- ACA85B (octal 53124133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 17, 1976
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00830991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sherer Preston A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 501 S 6Th St
Watertown, WI 53094-4637
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.
Connections how N9143U links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 150 7,992 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-200 series 8,790 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Watertown, WI 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Watertown Municipal · RYV
- Wisconsin 6,161 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 150 34 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 150 593 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 150 240 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 series 1 reports since 1995
- Where N9143U is now · Last seen October 17 at 11:32 am.
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The public federal record on N9143U, 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 Sherer Preston A, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated March 17, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15078094 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9143U 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 N9143U: Accident on November 9, 1994 at Tomahawk, WI: 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 150 · operated under 091
the collision with deer during landing - flare/touchdown.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data