Cessna Aircraft Co 162
N263VX is a Cessna Aircraft Co 162, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indialantic, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated November 16, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Aircraft Co
- Model
- 162 · all 162s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16200031
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A28C13 (octal 50506023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · November 16, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01059858
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Kevin G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 112-200 Ponce Deleon Dr
Indialantic, FL 32903
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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 N263VX, 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 West Kevin G, an individual, certificate issued October 30, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 16, 2024, 13 years after the 2011 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N263VX 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 N263VX: Accident on May 5, 2018 at Waterloo, IN: 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 landing flare during a soft-field landing and his use of an improper soft-field landing procedure, which resulted in a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA277 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