Cessna Aircraft Co 162
N163TW is a Cessna Aircraft Co 162, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 5, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Aircraft Co
- Model
- 162 · all 162s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16200230
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0FE91 (octal 50177221)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · September 5, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01088390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainier Flight Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 300 Airport Way Ste 201
Renton, WA 98057-5368
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N163TW, 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.
Valid registration to Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200230 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N163TW according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N163TW: Accident on March 22, 2026 at Chehalis, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna Aircraft CO 162 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a tail strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA136 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data