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N1293E

Cessna 208B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N1293E is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1996. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC, a corporation in Rosharon, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 23, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
208B · all 208Bs and related versions
Serial number
208B0537
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-45 · 1120 hp
Seats
12
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A077E7 (octal 50073747)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
July 28, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 23, 1996
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00735961

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 1121
Rosharon, TX 77583-1121

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 2

1980-09-16Boeing 727-2T3 · Valid registration
1963-09-16Aeronca 7AC · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1293E, 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 Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 28, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 23, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0537 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1293E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 727-2T3 (serial 1293E, cancelled September 16, 1980); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-4854, cancelled September 16, 1963). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1293E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data