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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N17SE
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N17SE

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesVermont

N17SE is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2011. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Beta Fleet LLC, an LLC in South Burlington, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 9, 2011.

Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 3:30 pm.

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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
1322
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 PT6A-67P · 1272 hp
Seats
11
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A11869 (octal 50214151)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 16, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 16, 2025
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 · November 9, 2011
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01083006

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Beta Fleet LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1150 Airport Dr
South Burlington, VT 05403-6000

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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2018-01-03Brian P North RAF SE5A REPLICA · Registration expired, pending cancellation
2006-07-05Beech E-90 · exported to South Africa · Valid registration

Connections how N17SE links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • South Burlington, VT 63 aircraft registered in this town
  • Vermont 675 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N17SE.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N17SE, 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 Beta Fleet LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 9, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1322 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N17SE was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Brian P North RAF SE5A REPLICA (serial PFA 020-13793, cancelled January 3, 2018); Beech E-90 (serial LW-169, cancelled July 5, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N17SE: Accident on November 21, 2012 at Watkins, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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

CEN13FA066Accident on November 21, 2012 at Watkins, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: PFA 020-13793

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Brian P North RAF SE5A Replica · operated under 091

The pilot’s loss of airplane control and inadvertent stall while attempting to return for landing.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data