Cessna 152
N918U is a Cessna 152, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Griffith Aviation INC, a corporation in Griffith, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 6, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 152 · all 152s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15285441
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-235-L2C · 118 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- ACB625 (octal 53133045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · September 6, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00860481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffith Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1705 E Main St
Griffith, IN 46319-2941
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.
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The public federal record on N918U, 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 Griffith Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2009, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 6, 2006, 25 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15285441 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N918U 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 N918U: Accident on March 23, 2016 at Valparaiso, IN: 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 152 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain pitch control during the landing flare, which resulted in a porpoise and substantial damage to the firewall.
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