{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-05-06","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; Crew training; Market survey","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-01-15","city":"CEDAR RAPIDS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51499","engine_horsepower":867,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-140","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Textron Aviation Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TEXTRON AVIATION INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073712","mode_s_code":"50330465","mode_s_hex":"A1B135","model":"208B","n_number":"N208RC","name":"ROCKWELL COLLINS LEASING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KEY WEST","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-05-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA91LA136","probable_cause":"OVERLOAD FAILURE OF THE NOSE LANDING GEAR RESULTING IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE NOSE LANDING GEAR DURING THE LANDING ROLL.","registration":"N208RC","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on May 4, 1991 at Key West, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N208RC is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2019. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Rockwell Collins Leasing LLC, an LLC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; market survey, dated May 6, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rockwell Collins Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 15, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 6, 2026, 7 years after the 2019 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5561 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N208RC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech F90 (serial LA-46, cancelled April 18, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N208RC: Accident on May 4, 1991 at Key West, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"208B5561","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2815 LIPPISCH PL SW","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01309520","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N208RC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"524048955"}