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Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-6/B2-H4
N488WY is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-6/B2-H4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2017. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Flexible Flyer LLC, an LLC in Cody, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-6/B2-H4 · all PC-6/B2-H4s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Pilatus PC-6 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
- 1012
- 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-27 · 680 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A6085C (octal 51404134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- 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 · September 18, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01263312
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flexible Flyer 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
- 3638 S Fork Rd
Cody, WY 82414-8010
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N488WY links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-6 22 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,363 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 31 aircraft with this engine series · 680 hp
- Flexible Flyer LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Cody, WY 84 aircraft registered in this town
- Yellowstone Regional · COD
- Wyoming 3,236 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-6 61 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-6 19 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-6 143 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 11 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N488WY, 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 Flexible Flyer LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 18, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N488WY 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N488WY. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data