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N285KT

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

N285KT is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2016. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Blink Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 11, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12/47E · all PC-12/47Es and related versions
Serial number
1589
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67P · 1272 hp
Seats
11
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A2E181 (octal 50560601)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 12, 2019
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 11, 2016
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01202871

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blink Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3005 W 77Th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57108-2789

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N285KT, 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 Blink Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 11, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1589 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N285KT according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N285KT. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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