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A Cessna 162, the same model family as N52030
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N52030

Cessna Aircraft Co 162

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N52030 is a Cessna Aircraft Co 162, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Hb963 LLC, an LLC in Gig Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 18, 2010.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna Aircraft Co
Model
162 · all 162s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
16200016
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 · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A68BC8 (octal 51505710)

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 2, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 2, 2024
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 · October 18, 2010
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01056924

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hb963 LLC
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
3118 Judson St Unit 1643
Gig Harbor, WA 98335-9276

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 2

1988-10-19Cessna 180J · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1955-12-06Consolidated Vultee BT-13 · Valid registration

Connections how N52030 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Hb963 LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
  • Gig Harbor, WA 155 aircraft registered in this town
  • Washington 10,568 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N52030.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N52030, 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 Hb963 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 2, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 18, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N52030 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 180J (serial 18052450, cancelled October 19, 1988); Consolidated Vultee BT-13 (serial 491, cancelled December 6, 1955). 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 N52030. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data