Cessna 208B
N7581F is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1994. 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 10, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 2, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B0389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AA3A42 (octal 52435102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 2, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00464902
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7581F, 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 10, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 2, 1998, 4 years after the 1994 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 208B0389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7581F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7ECA (serial 737-70, cancelled May 25, 1973). 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]
2 NTSB records under N7581F: Accident on June 3, 2022 at Oceanside, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on July 21, 2016 at Baldwin, WI: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208B · operated under 091
The right-seated pilot’s failure to correct the left-seated pilot’s mismanagement of the engine thrust, which resulted in undesired speed and thrust oscillations during the final approach and a subsequent descent into terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208B · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to land the fully loaded parachutist drop airplane on a wet grass runway that had insufficient length for the landing in high temperature conditions, which resulted in a runway overrun, when a more suitable longer runway was available at a nearby airport.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data