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.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 2:12 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
- 16200117
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- AADDFF (octal 52556777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01072736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orion Ventures LLC
- 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
- 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
Connections how N8JM 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-200 329 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Orion Ventures LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kalispell, MT 1,280 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 162 10 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200 67 reports since 1995
- Where N8JM is now · Last seen October 16 at 2:12 pm.
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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
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data