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N9697F

Cessna 208

Valid Idaho

N9697F is a Cessna 208, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1988. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Wilderness Aircraft III LLC, an LLC in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1988.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
208 · all 208s and related versions
Serial number
20800128
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1988
Transponder code
AD80E8 (octal 53300350)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 14, 2004
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 20, 1988
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00124071

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wilderness Aircraft III LLC
Type
LLC
Address
501 Baybrook Ct
Boise, ID 83706-3915

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1964-08-13Hughes 369 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9697F, 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 Wilderness Aircraft III LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 14, 2004, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20800128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9697F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 369 (serial 33-0003, cancelled August 13, 1964). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9697F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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