Cessna 208B
N989FX is a Cessna 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2012. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Federal Express CORP, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2012.
Listed on the FAA airline and charter certificates of Mountain Air Cargo, 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 yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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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
- 208B2403
- 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-114A · 675 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- ADCD26 (octal 53346446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 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 · October 23, 2012
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01106979
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Federal Express CORP
- 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
- Attn:Vp Supplemental Air Ops
3630 Hacks Cross Rd Bldg C Fl 2Nd
Memphis, TN 38125-8800
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 N989FX 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
- Mountain Air Cargo, Inc. · airline and charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A 251 aircraft with this engine series · 675 hp
- Federal Express CORP 586 aircraft in the fleet
- Memphis, TN 1,014 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick W Smith Intl/Memphis Airport · MEM
- General Dewitt Spain Airport · M01
- Tennessee 6,518 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 Canada PT6A-114A 6 airworthiness directives
- Where N989FX is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N989FX.json.
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The public federal record on N989FX, 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 Federal Express CORP, a corporation, certificate issued November 13, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B2403 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N989FX 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 N989FX: Accident on February 24, 2015 at Baltimore, MD: 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 ground service vehicle operator's failure to yield right of way to the airplane due to distraction, which necessitated the pilot's use of reverse thrust and braking to avoid a collision and resulted in the airplane's empennage striking the ground.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data