Cessna Aircraft Co 162
N5202B 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 May 31, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen November 4 at 1:59 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
- 16200012
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A68B8E (octal 51505616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 31, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01054792
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainier Flight Service LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 800 W Perimeter Rd
Renton, WA 98057-5328
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5202B 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
- Rainier Flight Service LLC 34 aircraft in the fleet
- Renton, WA 315 aircraft registered in this town
- Renton Municipal · RNT
- Will Rogers Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base · W36
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 162 10 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Strut, damaged · 2026-09-04
- Where N5202B is now · Last seen November 4 at 1:59 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5202B.json.
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The public federal record on N5202B, 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 May 31, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5202B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20 (serial 1065, cancelled September 29, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5202B: Accident on July 14, 2018 at Burlington, 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 E162 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain pitch control during an aborted takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data