Cessna 208B
N162SA 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 Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 18, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 4:42 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs 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
- 208B0548
- 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 · P&W Canada PT6A-45 · 1120 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A0FAAD (octal 50175255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2025
- 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 · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 18, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00415991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joby Aero 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
- 333 Encinal St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-2132
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.
Connections how N162SA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,019 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-45 33 aircraft with this engine series · 1120 hp
- Joby Aero INC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Cruz, CA 116 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,911 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-45 1 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Radio, abnormal · 2023-11-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Mount Bolt, corroded · 2017-07-21
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pump, corroded · 2013-02-18
- Where N162SA is now · Last seen Thursday at 4:42 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N162SA.json.
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The public federal record on N162SA, 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 Joby Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 4, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 18, 2026, 30 years after the 1996 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 208B0548 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N162SA according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N162SA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data