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A Cessna 208 Caravan, the same model family as N190BA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N190BA

Textron Aviation Inc 208B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N190BA is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2020. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bering Air INC, a corporation in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 19, 2020.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bering Air INC, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
208B · all 208Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
208B5611
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-140 · 867 hp
Seats
12
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A16845 (octal 50264105)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 4, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
February 27, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 19, 2020
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01328415

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bering Air 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
PO Box 1650
Nome, AK 99762-1650
Charter N190BA with Bering Air INC:

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

2009-07-29Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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The public federal record on N190BA, 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 Bering Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5611 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N190BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A (serial 1447, cancelled July 29, 2009). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N190BA: Accident on June 14, 2009 at Garrison, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN09CA357Accident on June 14, 2009 at Garrison, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 1447

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat A1 · operated under 091

The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing on the water and subsequent loss of control.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data