Textron Aviation Inc 208B
N97XX is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2020. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Taylor 483 LLC, an LLC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 2020.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of South Aero, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 6:00 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- 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
- 208B5577
- 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 Canada PT6A-140 · 867 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AD836F (octal 53301557)
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 4, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 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 · March 31, 2020
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01315197
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taylor 483 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
- PO Box 9357
Albuquerque, NM 87119-9357
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.
Connections how N97XX links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,434 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- South Aero, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 238 aircraft with this engine series · 867 hp
- Taylor 483 LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Albuquerque, NM 1,180 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,113 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,911 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 272 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 38 reports since 1995
- Where N97XX is now · Last seen Tuesday at 6:00 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N97XX.json.
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The public federal record on N97XX, 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 Taylor 483 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 4, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 31, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5577 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97XX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N97XX. 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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data