Pilatus PC-12/45
N316PM is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
- Serial number
- 241
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A35E6C (octal 50657154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00833607
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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 N316PM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 26, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 2005, 7 years after the 1998 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 241 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N316PM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4636317, cancelled January 16, 2003). 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 N316PM: Accident on August 4, 2002 at Benton Harbor, MI: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). 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-46-350P · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed above stall speed resulting in a stall/spin. Additional causes were the pilot not maintaining best glide airspeed and optimal glidepath following the loss of engine power. A factor to the accident was the engine failure due to the fatigue failure of the crankshaft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02FA231 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