Cessna Aircraft Co 162
N179LC is a Cessna Aircraft Co 162, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to La Flight School INC, a corporation in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated May 16, 2012.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 5:15 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Aircraft Co
- Model
- 162 · all 162s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 162 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
- 16200221
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A13B99 (octal 50235631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 16, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01088378
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- La Flight School INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7900 Balboa Blvd Ste D3
Van Nuys, CA 91406-1646
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N179LC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 162 175 registered
- Cessna Aircraft Co 390 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-200-D 210 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- La Flight School INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Van Nuys, CA 163 aircraft registered in this town
- Van Nuys Airport · VNY
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 162 10 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200-D 2 airworthiness directives
- Where N179LC is now · Last seen Tuesday at 5:15 pm.
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The public federal record on N179LC, 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 La Flight School INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 27, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated May 16, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200221 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N179LC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N179LC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data