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N162MA

Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1C-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N162MA is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1C-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Powderly, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2009.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aviat Aircraft Inc
Model
A-1C-180 · all A-1C-180s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1 Husky family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
3056
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1P · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2009
Transponder code
A0FA30 (octal 50175060)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 22, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 22, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 26, 2009
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01022284

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hearne Scott N
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
6981 County Road 43200
Powderly, TX 75473-5338

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2006-01-11Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 · exported to Germany · Valid registration
2000-10-26Swearingen SA226TC · Valid registration

Connections how N162MA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Powderly, TX 8 aircraft registered in this town
  • Texas 29,911 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N162MA.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N162MA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hearne Scott N, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N162MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0256, cancelled January 11, 2006); Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC234E, cancelled October 26, 2000). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N162MA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data