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Textron Aviation Inc 208
N152TA is a Textron Aviation Inc 208, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Tuck Aerial Surveys INC, a corporation in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 10:16 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 208 · all 208s 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 208 Caravan 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
- 20800664
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0D347 (octal 50151507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01317926
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tuck Aerial Surveys INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4632 Aerial Way
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219-2996
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 1
Connections how N152TA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,419 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Tuck Aerial Surveys INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Big Stone Gap, VA 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,908 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 271 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Compressor, noisy · 2012-07-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Compressor Blade, cracked · 2010-08-18
- Where N152TA is now · Last seen Thursday at 10:16 am.
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The public federal record on N152TA, 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 Tuck Aerial Surveys INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 2, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20800664 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N152TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350B1 ECUREUIL (serial 2241, cancelled April 14, 2017). 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 N152TA: Accident on March 4, 2008 at Linden, NJ: 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: Eurocopter France AS350B1 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper preflight preparation and his failure to maintain control of the helicopter.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data