Textron Aviation Inc 208B
N404BA is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2015. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bering Air INC, a corporation in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 13, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B5228
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140 · 867 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4BB97 (octal 51135627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 13, 2015
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01181442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bering Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1650
Nome, AK 99762-1650
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N404BA, 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 Bering Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 13, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N404BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 404 (serial 404-0237, cancelled May 21, 2002). 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 N404BA: Accident on May 13, 2001 at Pena Pobre, PR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 404 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain altitude/clearance, resulting in an in-flight collision with rising terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA01FA140 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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