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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Aircraft Co
- Model
- 162 · all 162s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16200166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A7D8E8 (octal 51754350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · November 2, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01075263
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainier Flight Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA038 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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