{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1968-12-23","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"COTTAGE GROVE","country_code":"US","county_code":"163","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-22","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2071820","mode_s_code":"51745074","mode_s_hex":"A7CA3C","model":"150J","n_number":"N60040","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHARLESTOWN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-12-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI92LA058","probable_cause":"FUEL EXHAUSTION.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE OF THE AIRPLANE AND THE PILOT'S DECISION TO FLY AN AIRPLANE WITH KNOWN MECHANICAL DEFICIENCIES.","registration":"N60040","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on December 13, 1991 at Charlestown, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N60040 is a Cessna 150J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 23, 1968.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for utility, dated December 23, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15070026 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N60040 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 1212, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N60040: Accident on December 13, 1991 at Charlestown, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"15070026","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"6152 GOODVIEW ALCOVE S","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00820876","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N60040","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1968,"zip":"550166089"}