The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N40EA

Cessna 208

Valid Illinois

N40EA is a Cessna 208, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Eagle Air Transport INC, a corporation in Ottawa, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
208 · all 208s and related versions
Serial number
20800084
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-114 · 600 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1992
Transponder code
A4AAAD (octal 51125255)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 4, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
September 22, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 14, 2006
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00310716

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eagle Air Transport INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3215 E 1969Th Rd
Ottawa, IL 61350-9408

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 3

2025-04-28Cessna 208 · Valid registration
2008-04-02Bell 222 · exported to Ireland · Valid registration
1990-10-18Bell 206B · exported to United Kingdom · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N40EA, 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 Eagle Air Transport INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 4, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 14, 2006, 14 years after the 1992 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20800084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N40EA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 208 (serial 20800065, cancelled April 28, 2025); Bell 222 (serial 47061, cancelled April 2, 2008); Bell 206B (serial 1114, cancelled October 18, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N40EA: Accident on February 14, 2025 at Pierson, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA25FA119Accident on February 14, 2025 at Pierson, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 20800065

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208 · operated under 091

The non-instrument-rated pilot’s continued visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation and a subsequent loss of control.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25FA119 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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