Textron Aviation Inc 208B
N421SY is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2021. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 9, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Tropic Ocean Airways, LLC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 208 Caravan family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 208B5636
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140 · 867 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A500FD (octal 51200375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 9, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01338383
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bank of Utah Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 50 South 200 East Ste 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
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
Connections how N421SY links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,413 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Tropic Ocean Airways, LLC. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 238 aircraft with this engine series · 867 hp
- Bank Of Utah Trustee 1,828 aircraft in the fleet
- Salt Lake City, UT 2,939 aircraft registered in this town
- Salt Lake City International · SLC
- South Valley Regional · SVR
- Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,908 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 271 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 38 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N421SY, 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 Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 9, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5636 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N421SY was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421C (serial 421C0051, cancelled April 18, 2014). 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 N421SY: Accident on December 9, 2011 at Sioux Falls, SD: fatal, substantial damage (4 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 421C · operated under 135
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed after shutting down one engine, which resulted in an inadvertent aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to follow the guidance contained in the pilot’s operating handbook, which advised feathering the propeller of the secured engine and retracting the flaps and landing gear.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data