Cessna 208B
N900JA is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2002. It has 12 seats. It is registered to J A Aero INC, a corporation in Sugar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2010 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 29, 2008.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Airpac Airlines, Inc., 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
- 208B0935
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AC6FF5 (octal 53067765)
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 4, 2010
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · May 29, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00447869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- J A Aero INC
- 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
- 43W730 U S Route 30
Sugar Grove, IL 60554
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 N900JA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,020 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Airpac Airlines, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A 250 aircraft with this engine series · 675 hp
- J A Aero INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to July 30, 2027
- Sugar Grove, IL 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,070 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,911 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A 6 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N900JA.json.
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The public federal record on N900JA, 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 J A Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 4, 2010, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 2008, 6 years after the 2002 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0935 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N900JA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: S N I A S AS350D ASTAR (serial 1433, 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 N900JA: Accident on August 14, 1983 at Dover Township, NJ: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). 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: Aerospatiale AS350D · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data