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A Pilatus PC-24, the same model family as N251AF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N251AF

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-24

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Hampshire
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N251AF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-24, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2021. It has 9 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 17, 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.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-24 · all PC-24s 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. This is how the Pilatus PC-24 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
251
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-4A-QPM · 3,433 lb thrust
Seats
9
Year built
2021
Transponder code
A25B3B (octal 50455473)

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 15, 2026
Expires
October 31, 2033
Last FAA action
October 15, 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 · December 17, 2021
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
01355716

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Csmc Holdings INC
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
115 Flightline Road
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Co-owners
Central Mutual Insurance CO / Pegway LLC / Berger Associates Realty LLC / Campbell Susan M / Amick Farms LLC

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

2026-10-14Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N251AF, 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 Csmc Holdings INC, a co-owned, certificate issued October 15, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 17, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 251 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N251AF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 14, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N251AF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data