N8040U (Cessna 150M) — routes, history & safety record

Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows one earlier aircraft with this mark, the last registration cancelled on July 27, 1961.

We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.

Safety history

No recorded accidents or incidents for this aircraft in FlightFinder’s database.

Registrations are reused. These records predate the airframe built in 1976 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried N8040U.

July 11, 1961Accident
**Introduction** On July 11, 1961, at 1136 M.S.T., a United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 crashed during its landing roll at Stapleton Airfield in Denver, Colorado. The aircraft swerved off the runway, struck a taxiway, and caught fire.
Douglas DC-8 · 18 fatalities
The Board determines the probable cause of this accident was the asymmetric thrust which, during hydraulic emergency, resulted from the failure of the thrust reversers on engines Nos. 1 and 2 when reverse thrust was selected. Full accident record