{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1971-06-23","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1989-10-23","city":"USAF ACADEMY","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17020","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"0-200 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2071826","mode_s_code":"51615404","mode_s_hex":"A71B04","model":"150L","n_number":"N557SH","name":"UNITED STATES AIR FORCE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY","plain_english":"N557SH is a Cessna 150L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 1989 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 23, 1971.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued October 23, 1989, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for utility, dated June 23, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15072617 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N557SH according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N557SH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":2,"serial_number":"15072617","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"34TH OG/OGQ","street2":"9206 AIRFIELD DR STE 1","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00203550","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N557SH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"808402060"}