Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47
N281H is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2007. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Sterling Air Service LLC, an LLC in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-12/47 · all PC-12/47s and related versions
- Serial number
- 799
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67B · 1200 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A2D261 (octal 50551141)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 6, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00331079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sterling Air Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 18659
Corpus Christi, TX 78480-8659
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N281H, 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 Sterling Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 799 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N281H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial AF-694, cancelled October 14, 2009); General Aircraft Corp. 102-E (serial 23, cancelled August 30, 1940). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N281H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data