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.
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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
- 16200021
- 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 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A68BF4 (octal 51505764)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2026
- 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 · November 29, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01057330
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Racer LTD
- 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
- 2500 Sierra Creek Rd
Agoura Hills, CA 91301-3128
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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 N52049 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 series 8,792 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- West Racer LTD 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Agoura Hills, CA 14 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,713 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 162 10 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 series 1 reports since 1995
- Where N52049 is now · Last seen today at 12:12 pm.
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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.
Valid registration to West Racer LTD, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N52049: Accident on May 12, 1982 at Chandeleur Isla, LA: 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 172P · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data