Textron Aviation Inc 408
N408SP is a Textron Aviation Inc 408, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 408 · all 408s and related versions
- Serial number
- 408-0034
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&Wc PT6A-65SC · 1110 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A4CBF7 (octal 51145767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 28, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01455410
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Samaritans Purse
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607-3000
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N408SP, 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 Samaritans Purse, a corporation, certificate issued October 10, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 28, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 408-0034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N408SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B (serial F8B-107, cancelled June 7, 2013). 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 N408SP. 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