{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"WICHITA","country_code":"US","county_code":"173","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-11","maker":"Textron Aviation Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TEXTRON AVIATION INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073712","mode_s_code":"52110137","mode_s_hex":"A8905F","model":"208B","n_number":"N6509T","name":"TEXTRON AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lafayette","damage":"SUBS","date":"2009-01-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN09CA136","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadvertent encounter with icing conditions during initial climb.  Contributing to the accident were the lack of visibility during the landing due to an ice covered windscreen, and the structural ice that adversely affected the flight characteristics of the airplane.","registration":"N6509T","state":"IN","summary":"Accident on January 18, 2009 at Lafayette, IN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6509T is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Textron Aviation INC, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Textron Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5982 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6509T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 19A (serial MB-349, cancelled March 23, 2009); Cessna 150 (serial 17909, cancelled August 9, 1960). 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 N6509T: Accident on January 18, 2009 at Lafayette, IN: 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":12,"serial_number":"208B5982","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate","status_code":"M","status_short":"Valid (manufacturer)","street":"1 CESSNA BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01576665","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6509T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"672151400"}