Textron Aviation Inc 208B
N496SA is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2026. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Southern Airways Pacific LLC, an LLC in Addison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 17, 2026. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Southern Airways Express, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 2:05 pm.
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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
- 208B5943
- 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
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A627F3 (octal 51423763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 11, 2026
- 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 · April 17, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01545662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Airways Pacific LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5080 Spectrum Dr Ste 250W
Addison, TX 75001-6547
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 1
Connections how N496SA 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
- Southern Airways Express, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 238 aircraft with this engine series · 867 hp
- Southern Airways Pacific LLC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Addison, TX 232 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,911 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2017-03-07
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bear Strap, corroded · 2016-08-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Frame, corroded · 2016-08-08
- Where N496SA is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:05 pm.
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The public federal record on N496SA, 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 Southern Airways Pacific LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 11, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 17, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5943 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N496SA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 13, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N496SA. 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 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