Pilatus PC-9/A
N289PC is a Pilatus PC-9/A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tuca 27 LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 3, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-9/A · all PC-9/As and related versions
- Serial number
- 546
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-6 SERIES · 950 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A2F0B2 (octal 50570262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 3, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01318585
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tuca 27 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N289PC, 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 Tuca 27 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 11, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 3, 2022, 31 years after the 1991 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 546 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N289PC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32RT-300 (serial 32R-7985093, cancelled September 29, 2014). 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 N289PC: Accident on August 24, 1990 at Hattiesburg, MS: 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: Piper PA-32RT-300 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO ATTAIN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED PRIOR TO LIFTOFF DURING AN ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF. THE PILOT THEN LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT. THE PILOT ALSO DELAYED IN HIS DECISION TO ABORT THE TAKEOFF.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA90LA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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