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Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/45
N283VC is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2005. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Sunridge Aviation LLC, an LLC in Henderson, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2005.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Steelman Aviation INC, 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 yesterday at 10:59 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s 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. 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
- 679
- 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 PT6SER TP · 500 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A2DAFE (octal 50555376)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- 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 9, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00220229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunridge 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
- 2816 Soaring Peak Ave
Henderson, NV 89052-7704
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.
Connections how N283VC links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,447 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,364 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Steelman Aviation INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 500 hp
- Sunridge Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Henderson, NV 418 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,586 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,658 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-12 205 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Not Reported, not reported · 2022-01-23
- Where N283VC is now · Last seen yesterday at 10:59 am.
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The public federal record on N283VC, 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 Sunridge Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 679 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N283VC according to the deregistered file. [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 N283VC. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data