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Cessna 208B
N852MA is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2013. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2013.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Southern Airways Express, LLC, 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 7:53 pm.
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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
- 208B5081
- 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-140 · 867 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- ABAFDA (octal 52727732)
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 28, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 4, 2025
- 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 · November 29, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01134233
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bank of Utah Trustee
- 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
- 50 S 200 e Ste 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1617
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 N852MA 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
- Southern Airways Express, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 238 aircraft with this engine series · 867 hp
- Bank Of Utah Trustee 1,817 aircraft in the fleet
- Salt Lake City, UT 2,930 aircraft registered in this town
- Salt Lake City International · SLC
- South Valley Regional · SVR
- Utah 8,355 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
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 38 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Warning Message, illuminated · 2026-07-30
- Report filed on this aircraft: Generator, faulted · 2026-03-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Comms Unit, faulted · 2026-01-20
- Where N852MA is now · Last seen today at 7:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N852MA, 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 Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N852MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-8-102 (serial 349, cancelled December 3, 1997). 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 N852MA: Incident on January 22, 1997 at Charleston, WV: no injuries. 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: De Havilland DHC-8-102 · operated under 121
a fractured fusion weld in the piston of the roll spoiler servoactuator, which allowed the plug at the base of the piston to separate and jam the piston. A factor relating to the incident was: the inadequate design of the airplane's roll spoiler servoactuator piston.
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