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A Cessna 208 Caravan, the same model family as N86EX
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N86EX

Textron Aviation Inc 208B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesUtah

N86EX is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2024. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation in North Salt Lake, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 9, 2024.

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Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
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
208B5816
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
2024
Transponder code
ABCCF8 (octal 52746370)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 10, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 10, 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 · July 9, 2024
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01448480

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC 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
39 e Eagle Ridge Dr Ste 201
North Salt Lake, UT 84054-2533

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

1998-12-09Canadair F-86E MK.6 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N86EX links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • North Salt Lake, UT 1,663 aircraft registered in this town
  • Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N86EX, 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 Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued December 10, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 9, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5816 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N86EX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Canadair F-86E MK.6 (serial 1489, cancelled December 9, 1998). 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 N86EX: Accident on June 1, 1997 at Broomfield, CO: 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

FTW97FA207Accident on June 1, 1997 at Broomfield, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1489

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Canadair F-86E MK.6 · operated under 091

Inadequate planning and decision making by the pilot in starting the aerobatic maneuver at an insufficient altitude to successfully complete the maneuver.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data