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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N459PC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N459PC

Pilatus PC-12/45

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N459PC is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2002. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Proper Technique LLC, an LLC in Ooltewah, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2002.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus
Model
PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium airframe; composite control surfaces and fairings. This is how the Pilatus PC-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
459
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67B · 1200 hp
Seats
12
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A594D3 (octal 51312323)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 27, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 27, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 6, 2002
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00000949

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Proper Technique LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
5767 Tallant Rd
Ooltewah, TN 37363-8119

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N459PC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Ooltewah, TN 33 aircraft registered in this town
  • Tennessee 6,518 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N459PC, 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 Proper Technique LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 27, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N459PC 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 N459PC. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data