Cessna 208B
N774SP is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2013. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Samaritans Purse, a corporation in Boone, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- 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
- 208B5030
- 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
- 2013
- Transponder code
- AA7981 (octal 52474601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2024
- 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 26, 2023
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01119279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Samaritans Purse
- 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
- PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607-3000
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 N774SP links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 238 aircraft with this engine series · 867 hp
- Samaritans Purse 41 aircraft in the fleet
- Boone, NC 76 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,117 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,910 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: Brake, low pressure · 2017-06-11
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N774SP.json.
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The public federal record on N774SP, 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 Samaritans Purse, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 2023, 10 years after the 2013 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 208B5030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N774SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S8703, cancelled May 13, 2010). 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 N774SP. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
