Cessna 208B
N9454B 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 Airspeed Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tacoma, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2006 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 25, 1988.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 5:22 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
- 208B0072
- 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 PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- AD22A1 (octal 53221241)
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 23, 2006
- 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 · January 25, 1988
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00134071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airspeed Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1515 Dock St Ph 902
Tacoma, WA 98402-3261
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 N9454B links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Airspeed Aviation LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Tacoma, WA 137 aircraft registered in this town
- Tacoma Narrows Airport · TIW
- Washington 10,580 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 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pump, failed · 2002-01-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stringer, cracked · 1996-12-01
- Where N9454B is now · Last seen Sunday at 5:22 pm.
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The public federal record on N9454B, 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 Airspeed Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 23, 2006, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 25, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9454B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 175 (serial 55254, cancelled February 11, 1969). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9454B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data