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A Cessna 208 Caravan, the same model family as N828FE
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N828FE

Cessna 208B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N828FE is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1988. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Federal Express Corporation, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 1992 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 26, 2016.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of AirDialog, LLC, 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
aluminium
The 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
208B0122
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-114A · 675 hp
Seats
12
Year built
1988
Transponder code
AB4F15 (octal 52647425)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 5, 1992
Expires
August 31, 2027
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 · October 26, 2016
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00484131

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Federal Express Corporation
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 2Nd Fl
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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1990-06-07Cessna 208A · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Connections how N828FE links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N828FE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Federal Express Corporation, a corporation, certificate issued May 5, 1992, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 26, 2016, 28 years after the 1988 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0122 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N828FE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 208A (serial 20800073, cancelled June 7, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N828FE: Accident on October 23, 1987 at Fairfield, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX88FA020Accident on October 23, 1987 at Fairfield, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 20800073

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 208A · operated under 135

PILOT'S ENCOUNTER WITH SEVERE TURBULENCE WHICH PRECIPITATED A LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data