Cessna 208 Caravan — U.S. Fleet History & Risk Data
Turboprop · 987 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1985–2026
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Cessna 208 Caravan airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 32 — Landing Gear : 111 reports
- 73 — Engine Fuel & Control : 67 reports
- 27 — Flight Controls : 57 reports
- 72 — Engine : 49 reports
- 57 — Wings : 46 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2024-15-09 · effective 2024-10-22 — report of the potential for a failure of the ATLAS system in which a loss of load alleviation would be un-annunciated
- AD 2021-04-10 (recurring) · effective 2021-04-12 — reports of loose elevator torque tube attach fasteners
- AD 2020-24-06 · effective 2020-12-28 — mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe condition on an a
- AD 2012-22-01 · effective 2012-12-28 — reports of chafed fuel return line assemblies, which were caused by the fuel return line assembly rubbing against the right steering tube assembly during full rudder pedal
- AD 2008-26-10 · effective 2010-11-16 — The FAA is correcting an airworthiness directive (AD) that was published in the Federal Register. That AD applies to the products listed above. In the Information Heading and in the SUMMARY section of the published AD, we incorrectly included Cessna 188 series airplanes. In the Unsafe Condition section, we incorrectly designated that paragraph as (e) instead of (d). Also in the Compliance section, paragraph (f)(2), and in Figure 1, we incorrectly stated the mailing address for the report. We are issuing this document to help eliminate any confusion that this AD may have created in the Informat
ADs published since 1999 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.