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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N486PB
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N486PB

Pilatus PC-12/45

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N486PB is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2003. It has 12 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wichita Falls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2003.

Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:07 pm.

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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
486
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
2003
Transponder code
A6002A (octal 51400052)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 24, 2025
Expires
June 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 24, 2025
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 · April 28, 2003
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00043279

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Haggerty Michael B
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4515 Old Jacksboro Hwy Unit 2
Wichita Falls, TX 76302-2939
Co-owners
Brb2 Aviation LLC / Tylinto CORP / Patterson Management INC

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N486PB links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N486PB, 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 Haggerty Michael B, a co-owned, certificate issued June 24, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 486 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N486PB 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 N486PB. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data