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Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-24
N253DG is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-24, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2020. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Baja Aviation LLC, an LLC in Livermore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 18, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen November 5 at 3:23 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-24 · all PC-24s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 171
- 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 · 3,443 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A262F5 (octal 50461365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 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 · October 18, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01379969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baja Aviation 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
- 555 Exchange Ct
Livermore, CA 94550-2400
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 1
Connections how N253DG links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-24 203 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,365 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Williams International FJ44-4A 354 aircraft with this engine series · 3,443 lb thrust
- Baja Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Livermore, CA 181 aircraft registered in this town
- Livermore Municipal · LVK
- California 28,158 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-24 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-24 47 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-24 10 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Williams International FJ44-4A 75 reports since 1995
- Where N253DG is now · Last seen November 5 at 3:23 pm.
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The public federal record on N253DG, 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.
Valid registration to Baja Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 18, 2022, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N253DG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Don W Guice ZODIAC 601XL (serial 6-5247, cancelled September 4, 2015). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N253DG: Accident on June 29, 2015 at Seagoville, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Don W Guice ZODIAC 601XL · operated under 091
The engine overheating, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power, due to the pilot's operation of the engine with a higher-than-specified oil quantity level.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data