Textron Aviation Inc 408
N408SM is a Textron Aviation Inc 408, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2026. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Textron Aviation INC, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 30, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 408 · all 408s and related versions
- Serial number
- 408-0057
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&Wc PT6A-65SC · 1110 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A4CBF5 (octal 51145765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 30, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01492097
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Textron Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Cessna Blvd
Wichita, KS 67215-1400
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N408SM, 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 Textron Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 19, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 30, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 408-0057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N408SM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12 (serial 120507, cancelled March 23, 2018); Agusta Spa A109S (serial 22121, cancelled January 22, 2010). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N408SM. 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 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