{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1976-02-11","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"THREE RIVERS","country_code":"US","county_code":"149","cruise_speed_mph":81,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-08-31"}],"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":"2026-07-09","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2071830","mode_s_code":"52621451","mode_s_hex":"AB2329","model":"150M","n_number":"N8168U","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHICO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-07-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX97LA251","probable_cause":"failure of the student pilot to maintain adequate airspeed during a go-around.  Trees at the departure end of the runway were a related factor.","registration":"N8168U","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 7, 1997 at Chico, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"CORVALLIS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1982-07-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA82DA124","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8168U","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on July 22, 1982 at Corvallis, OR: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8168U 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 Three Rivers, Michigan. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 11, 1976. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". 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 February 11, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15077905 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8168U according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 31, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N8168U: Accident on July 7, 1997 at Chico, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 22, 1982 at Corvallis, OR: 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":"15077905","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"1400 8TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00030112","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8168U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"490931730"}