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Cessna 208B
N781FE is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Federal Express CORP, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 26, 1991.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of West Air, INC., 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 today at 8:13 am.
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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
- 208B0278
- 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 PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- AA94BF (octal 52512277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2023
- 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 · August 26, 1991
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00145291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Federal Express CORP
- 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
- Vp Supplemental Air Operations
3630 Hacks Cross Rd Bldg C Fl 2Nd
Memphis, TN 38125-8800
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.
Connections how N781FE links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- West Air, INC. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Federal Express CORP 587 aircraft in the fleet
- Memphis, TN 1,014 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick W Smith Intl/Memphis Airport · MEM
- General Dewitt Spain Airport · M01
- Tennessee 6,529 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 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, failed · 2025-04-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cylinder, cracked · 1996-10-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, bent · 1995-05-08
- Where N781FE is now · Last seen today at 8:13 am.
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The public federal record on N781FE, 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 Federal Express CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 11, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 26, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N781FE according to the deregistered file. [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 N781FE: Incident on November 24, 2018 at Bakersfield, CA: minor injuries. Accident on August 28, 1993 at Los Angeles, CA: 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 208 · operated under 135
The pilot's loss of consciousness while taxiing due to an accumulation of toxic levels of carbon dioxide gas inside the airplane as a result of dry ice sublimation. Also causal was the pilot's decision to fly the airplane in an unventilated configuration, the operator's policy that allowed this configuration, and the shipping company's inadvertent loading of excess dry ice, which exacerbated the concentration of carbon dioxide.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208B · operated under 091
The inattention of the driver of a service truck to yield to aircraft and subsequent collision with the airplane as it crossed the service roadway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data