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N33JA

Pilatus PC-12/45

Valid Louisiana

N33JA is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1999. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus
Model
PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
Serial number
261
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-66 SER · 850 hp
Seats
12
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A3943F (octal 50712077)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 27, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
November 25, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 18, 1999
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00355982

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Metro Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1214 Hawn Ave
Shreveport, LA 71107-6612

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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 N33JA, 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 Metro Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N33JA 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 N33JA. 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