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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N131AF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N131AF

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Hampshire

N131AF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2021. It has 11 seats. It is registered to non-citizen co-owned owners in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 20, 2021. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Cobalt Air, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 11:40 am.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12/47E · all PC-12/47Es and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium airframe; composite control surfaces and fairings. This is how the Pilatus PC-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
2131
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6E-67XP · 1200 hp
Seats
11
Year built
2021
Transponder code
A07EEE (octal 50077356)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 8, 2026
Expires
October 31, 2033
Last FAA action
October 8, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 20, 2021
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
01351883

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Manufacturers and Traders Trust CO
Type
Non-citizen co-ownedFAA type of owner code 9 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
115 Flightline Rd
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Co-owners
Creel Lawrence G / Evans Asset Management CORP / Hendrickson Gary e / Ih Property Management LLC / Johnson Steven A

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 1

2026-10-08Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

2005-10-14Piper PA-31T · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N131AF links to the rest of the register

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Place
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The public federal record on N131AF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Manufacturers and Traders Trust CO, a non-citizen co-owned, certificate issued October 8, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 20, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N131AF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-7820005, cancelled October 14, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 8, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N131AF: Incident on November 5, 1992 at Medford, OR: no injuries. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX93IA029Incident on November 5, 1992 at Medford, OR: no injuries.serial on NTSB record: 31T-7820005

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31T-620 · operated under 135

FATIGUE FAILURE OF THE ELEVATOR CONTROL TUBE ROD END BEARING RESULTING IN A LOSS OF ELEVATOR CONTROL.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data