Cessna 208B
N420DZ is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2001. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC, a corporation in Rosharon, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B0909
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-114A · 675 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A4FC02 (octal 51176002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 19, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00903877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1121
Rosharon, TX 77583-1121
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.
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The public federal record on N420DZ, 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 Desert Sand Aircraft Leasing CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 2016, 15 years after the 2001 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0909 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N420DZ according to the deregistered file. [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 N420DZ: Accident on August 11, 2024 at Whitewright, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 208 · operated under 091
The pilot’s incomplete flare which resulted a hard, flat landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA314 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data