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N5216N

Cessna Aircraft Co 162

N5216N 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 Skycatcher N162Ah LLC, an LLC in Santa Rosa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 29, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna Aircraft Co
Model
162 · all 162s and related versions
Serial number
16200047
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A68FDC (octal 51507734)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 25, 2017
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Light sport · Airplane · March 29, 2011
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01062575

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skycatcher N162Ah LLC
Type
LLC
Address
4660 Bennett Valley Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95404-8505

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

1979-01-17Boeing E75 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5216N, 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 Skycatcher N162Ah LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 25, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 29, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200047 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5216N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing E75 (serial 755839, cancelled January 17, 1979). 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 N5216N: Accident on November 15, 2014 at Santa Rosa, CA: 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

WPR15CA068Accident on November 15, 2014 at Santa Rosa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna Aircraft CO E162 · operated under 091

The student pilot's improper flare which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent nose gear collapse.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR15CA068 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