Cessna 208 Caravan: US Fleet Statistics

The FAA aircraft registry lists 1,012 Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Cessna 208 Caravan is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Cessna 208 together. It ranks #42 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.

These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.

The median registered Cessna 208 Caravan was manufactured in 2002. Most were built between 1988 and 2021, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1985 to 2026. A manufacture year is on file for 918 of the 1,012 registered aircraft.

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The FAA registry lists 1,012 Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft with a valid US registration — about 7.3% of all turboprop-powered aircraft in the US crewed fleet, and #42 of the 75 model families tracked here. The registered fleet carries a median manufacture year of 2002, newer than the overall US general-aviation fleet, whose median airframe dates to 1979. By state, Tennessee, Alaska, and Florida together account for 41.4% of the fleet, and the top ten states hold 73.1%.

The Cessna Caravan has the most geographically concentrated fleet of any model featured on this page. Tennessee and Alaska rank far above their share of the general fleet — a pattern consistent with the Caravan’s heavy use in package-feeder networks and in Alaskan bush, cargo, and float operations.

That concentration, combined with a wide spread of manufacture years, means Caravan operators often manage very different maintenance profiles across otherwise identical airframes — from high-cycle cargo tails flying multiple legs a day to lightly used private and utility aircraft.

Shares are computed from the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026. Engine-type share is of all turboprop-powered aircraft in the crewed US fleet; state shares are of all 1,012 registered Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft.

The Cessna 208 Caravan, including the Grand Caravan EX, is the utility single-engine turboprop: a rugged, high-wing workhorse used for feeder cargo, regional passenger service, skydiving, float and bush flying, and humanitarian missions. Few aircraft serve as many distinct roles.

Its operators range from large feeder-cargo networks and regional Part 135 carriers to individual utility, float, and bush operators. That diversity means Caravan fleets vary enormously in how they are flown and maintained, which is exactly the kind of operation where a clear per-tail maintenance and inspection record earns its keep.