Cessna 208B
N78SA is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Martinaire Aviation LLC, an LLC in Addison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B0467
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AA8FBE (octal 52507676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 18, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00195432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martinaire Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4553 Glenn Curtiss Dr
Addison, TX 75001-3244
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78SA, 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 Martinaire Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 30, 2006, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0467 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-78 (serial 70005, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N78SA: Accident on March 18, 2022 at Grapevine, TX: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208B · operated under 135
The failure of the pilot of the second aircraft to maintain a safe distance from the lead airplane while taxiing, which resulted in a ground collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA149 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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