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A Cessna 208 Caravan, the same model family as N516NC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026
N516NC

Cessna 208B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOklahoma

N516NC is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2008. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Cobra Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 2008. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Paklook Air, Inc, 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
Cessna
Model
208B · all 208Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
208B2070
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-114A · 675 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
12
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A678E8 (octal 51474350)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 22, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 22, 2025
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 · December 16, 2008
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01018155

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cobra Aviation Services 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
14201 Caliber Dr Ste 300
Oklahoma City, OK 73134-1017
Charter N516NC with Paklook Air, Inc:

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

2026-11-06Loan or lien (security agreement)

Connections how N516NC links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N516NC, 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 Cobra Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 16, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B2070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N516NC according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (November 6, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N516NC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data