Pilatus PC-12/45
N398J is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2001. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Mds Leasing LLC, an LLC in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
- Serial number
- 398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A4A149 (octal 51120511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 29, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00363994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mds Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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.
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The public federal record on N398J, 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 Mds Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N398J 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]
1 NTSB record under N398J: Accident on January 3, 2008 at Oklahoma City, OK: 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: Pilatus PC-12/45 · operated under 091
The line technician's failure to remain clear of the propeller. A factor was the night lighting conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08LA055 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