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Cessna 208B
N1983X is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2003. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Southern Airways Pacific LLC, an LLC in Addison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 18, 2003.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Southern Airways Express, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 3:45 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
- 208B1013
- 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 PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A188BA (octal 50304272)
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 10, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2026
- 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 · February 18, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00034279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Airways Pacific 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
- 5080 Spectrum Dr Ste 250W
Addison, TX 75001-6547
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 N1983X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,018 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Southern Airways Express, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Southern Airways Pacific LLC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Addison, TX 231 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,910 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Circuit Breaker, tripped · 2026-08-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, failed · 2026-04-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Static System, contaminated · 2019-05-08
- Where N1983X is now · Last seen Tuesday at 3:45 pm.
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The public federal record on N1983X, 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 Southern Airways Pacific LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 10, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 18, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B1013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1983X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182H (serial 18256083, cancelled April 14, 1965). 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 N1983X: Incident on January 19, 2024 at Dulles, VA: no injuries, minor 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: Cessna 208 · operated under 135
The pilot-in-command’s approach to the critical angle of attack during initial climb, which resulted in a vibration the flight crew improperly identified as an engine issue and resulted in the subsequent off-airport landing. Contributing to the accident was the operator’s inadequate and contradictory guidance for flight crews operating in winter conditions. Also contributing was the pilot-in-command’s decision not to perform a tactile check or deice, which resulted in taking off with ice contamination.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data