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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Wright Air Service INC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 11:58 am.
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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
- 208B0976
- 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 SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AD9A53 (octal 53315123)
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 29, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 27, 2003
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00046849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Air Service 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
- 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
Connections how N976E links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright Air Service INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Wright Air Service INC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Fairbanks, AK 843 aircraft registered in this town
- Fairbanks International · FAI
- Gold King Creek Airport · AK7
- Chena River Seaplane Base · 2Z5
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,908 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 271 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: Antenna, broken · 2011-08-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, loose · 2004-11-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar, chafed · 2004-08-02
- Where N976E is now · Last seen yesterday at 11:58 am.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data