Cessna Aircraft Co 162
N8JM 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 Orion Ventures LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated July 1, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna Aircraft Co
- Model
- 162 · all 162s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16200117
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- AADDFF (octal 52556777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · July 1, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01072736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orion Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 600
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8JM, 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 Orion Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 8, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 2025, 14 years after the 2011 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16200117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8JM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 273272, cancelled May 31, 1989). 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 N8JM: Accident on October 14, 1988 at Missing: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Piper PA-23-250 · operated under NUSN
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89WA009 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