Cessna Aircraft Co 162
N6043M 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 Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated November 2, 2011.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 4:41 pm.
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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
- 16200166
- 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-D · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A7D8E8 (octal 51754350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 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 · November 2, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01075263
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainier Flight Service 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
- 800 W Perimeter Rd
Renton, WA 98057-5328
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 3
Connections how N6043M 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-D 210 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Rainier Flight Service LLC 34 aircraft in the fleet
- Renton, WA 315 aircraft registered in this town
- Renton Municipal · RNT
- Will Rogers Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base · W36
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 162 10 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200-D 2 airworthiness directives
- Where N6043M is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:41 pm.
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The public federal record on N6043M, 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 Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 28, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated November 2, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6043M was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281339, cancelled January 16, 2007); Beech 77 (serial WA-18, cancelled August 5, 1999); Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-4043, cancelled September 26, 1961). 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 N6043M: Accident on December 18, 1996 at Spokane, WA: 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: Beech BE-77 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilots of both airplanes to see and avoid each other. A factor contributing to the accident was the Cessna's pilot diverted attention.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data