Cessna 208B
N976E 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 Wright Air Service INC, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 27, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B0976
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AD9A53 (octal 53315123)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 27, 2003
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00046849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3842 University Ave S
Fairbanks, AK 99709-4660
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N976E, 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 Wright Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 29, 2003, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 27, 2003, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0976 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N976E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-B55 (T42A) (serial TC-1282, cancelled September 24, 1970). 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 N976E: Accident on September 23, 2025 at Healy, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 208B · operated under 135
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the departure roll resulting in a collision with a tractor/loader.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC25LA110 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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