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A Cessna 162, the same model family as N5216L
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026
N5216L

Cessna Aircraft Co 162

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N5216L 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 Corsair Aviation LLC, an LLC in Pacoima, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 17, 2011.

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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
16200046
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
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A68FDA (octal 51507732)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 29, 2019
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
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 · March 17, 2011
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01062574

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Corsair Aviation 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
12653 Osborne St Ste 28
Pacoima, CA 91331-2158
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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

2003-06-10Cessna 152 · exported to Czech Republic · Valid registration

Connections how N5216L links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Pacoima, CA 54 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 28,279 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5216L.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5216L, 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 Corsair Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 29, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 17, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5216L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284278, cancelled June 10, 2003). 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 N5216L. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data