Cessna 208B
N97HA is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1997. 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 January 29, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 208B0610
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AD81FC (octal 53300774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00066601
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 60142
Fairbanks, AK 99706-0142
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.
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The public federal record on N97HA, 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 January 29, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B0610 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97HA according to the deregistered file. [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 N97HA: Accident on August 16, 2021 at Fairbanks, 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 208 · operated under 135
The pilot’s unexpected encounter with supercooled liquid droplets (SLD), which resulted in a loss of control due to ice accumulation. Contributing to the accident were: (1) the pilot’s failure to maintain the minimum airspeed for flight in icing conditions, (2) the pilot’s failure to disconnect the autopilot every 10 minutes to check for ice buildup, (3) the overweight airplane, (4) the lack of an SLD forecast product for the state of Alaska, and (5) the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require weight and balance documentation for each flight in Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 single-engine operations.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC21LA073 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data