{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-12-03","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-03-05","city":"NOME","country_code":"US","county_code":"180","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":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Textron Aviation Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TEXTRON AVIATION INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073712","mode_s_code":"50671041","mode_s_hex":"A37221","model":"208B","n_number":"N321BA","name":"BERING AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Nome","damage":"DEST","date":"2025-02-06","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC25MA018","probable_cause":"The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot\u2019s inadequate airspeed management due to workload and degraded situation awareness and his improper inputs leading up to and during the aerodynamic stall, which increased the airplane\u2019s angle of attack. Also causal was operation of the airplane above maximum gross weight, which reduced the airplane\u2019s stall margin. Contributing to the accident were the operator\u2019s inadequate safety management, which allowed the routine operation of flights that exceeded weight limitations, and the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s inadequate oversight of the operator, which failed to identify and address the routine operation of overweight flights.","registration":"N321BA","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on February 6, 2025 at Nome, AK: fatal, destroyed (10 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Clermont","damage":"SUBS","date":"2013-09-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA14CA088","probable_cause":"The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.","registration":"N321BA","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on September 15, 2013 at Clermont, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N321BA 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 Bering Air INC, a corporation in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 3, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bering Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 5, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 3, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5613 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N321BA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Let L-23 SUPER BLANIK (serial 988407, cancelled March 12, 2015); Beech 99 (serial U100, cancelled February 11, 1989). 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":"2 NTSB records under N321BA: Accident on February 6, 2025 at Nome, AK: fatal, destroyed (10 fatal). Accident on September 15, 2013 at Clermont, 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":12,"serial_number":"208B5613","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1650","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01328417","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N321BA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2020,"zip":"997621650"}