Cessna 208B
N851FE is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1989. 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 16, 1989 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B0166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- ABAB91 (octal 52725621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 1989
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 13, 1989
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00374461
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Federal Express Corporation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Vp Supplemental Air Operations
3630 Hacks Cross Rd Bldg C 2Nd Fl
Memphis, TN 38125-8800
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N851FE, 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 Corporation, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 1989, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N851FE 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]
1 NTSB record under N851FE: Accident on March 6, 1990 at Lanai, HI: 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 PILOT'S MISJUDGEMENT OF THE GLIDE PATH ANGLE WHILE EXECUTING A FORCED LANDING AT THE LANAI AIRPORT. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO PROPERLY SECURE THE OIL FILTER CAP PRIOR TO DEPARTURE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA110 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data