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N52049

Cessna Aircraft Co 162

N52049 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 West Racer LTD, a corporation in Agoura Hills, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated November 29, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna Aircraft Co
Model
162 · all 162s and related versions
Serial number
16200021
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A68BF4 (octal 51505764)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 29, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 29, 2026
Airworthiness
Light sport · Airplane · November 29, 2010
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01057330

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
West Racer LTD
Type
Corporation
Address
2500 Sierra Creek Rd
Agoura Hills, CA 91301-3128

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

2004-12-20Cessna 172P · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N52049, 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 West Racer LTD, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N52049 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274400, cancelled December 20, 2004). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N52049: Accident on May 12, 1982 at Chandeleur Isla, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW82DA233Accident on May 12, 1982 at Chandeleur Isla, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17274400

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DA233 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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