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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Martinaire Aviation L.L.C., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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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
- 208B0467
- 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
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AA8FBE (octal 52507676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 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 · September 18, 1995
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00195432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martinaire Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N78SA 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
- Martinaire Aviation L.L.C. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Martinaire Aviation LLC 23 aircraft in the fleet
- Addison, TX 231 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 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
- 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: Turbine Blades, corroded · 2019-11-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Mount Bolt, corroded · 2017-07-21
- Where N78SA is now · Last seen today at 7:54 am.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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