Textron Aviation Inc 208B
N53TE is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2017. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Thumb Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bad Axe, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B5351
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140 · 867 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A6AFC2 (octal 51527702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01269143
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thumb Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 175 Thompson Rd
Bad Axe, MI 48413-8274
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N53TE, 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 Thumb Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53TE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N (serial LN038, cancelled October 22, 2003). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53TE. 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 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
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