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N228ND

Cessna 208

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Dakota

N228ND is a Cessna 208, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2010. It has 10 seats. It is registered to North Dakota Dept Of Transportation, a government body in Bismarck, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
208 · all 208s and related versions
Serial number
20800520
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-114A · 675 hp
Seats
10
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A1FFE9 (octal 50377751)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
April 17, 2017
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 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 · March 30, 2010
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01049275

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
North Dakota Dept Of Transportation
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
608 E Boulevard Ave
Bismarck, ND 58505-0606

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N228ND, 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 North Dakota Dept Of Transportation, a government body, certificate issued April 17, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 30, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20800520 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N228ND according to the deregistered file. [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 N228ND. 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.

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