Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47
N48GA is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2006. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Apollo Aero LLC, an LLC in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 2006.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 4:22 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-12/47 · all PC-12/47s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 780
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A5E6D7 (octal 51363327)
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 6, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 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 · December 27, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00310089
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Apollo Aero 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
- PO Box 7145
Fargo, ND 58106-7145
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N48GA links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,447 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,365 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 277 aircraft with this engine series · 1200 hp
- Apollo Aero LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fargo, ND 210 aircraft registered in this town
- Hector International · FAR
- West Fargo Municipal · D54
- North Dakota 2,494 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,658 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-12 205 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 31 reports since 1995
- Where N48GA is now · Last seen Wednesday at 4:22 pm.
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The public federal record on N48GA, 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 Apollo Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 6, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 27, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 780 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48GA 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 N48GA: Accident on July 14, 2001 at Moultonboro, NH: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Yakovlev 52 · operated under 091
A clogged fuel vent line due to a mud dauber nest, and rough terrain, including a large hole, in the forced landing field.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data