Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E
N493AF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2014. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Rigi INC, a corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 31, 2014.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Cobalt Air, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 8:19 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-12/47E · all PC-12/47Es 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
- 1493
- 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-67P · 1272 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A61B43 (octal 51415503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 4, 2024
- 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 · October 31, 2014
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01163836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rigi INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 115 Flightline Rd
Portsmouth, NH 03801
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.
Connections how N493AF links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,443 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,359 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Cobalt Air, LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 509 aircraft with this engine series · 1272 hp
- Rigi INC 20 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 19, 2027
- Portsmouth, NH 125 aircraft registered in this town
- Portsmouth International AT Pease · PSM
- New Hampshire 1,555 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,657 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-12 205 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 63 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Barrel Nut, corroded · 2025-08-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, out of position · 2021-08-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Terminal, damaged · 2021-01-19
- Where N493AF is now · Last seen Thursday at 8:19 pm.
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The public federal record on N493AF, 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 Rigi INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 4, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 31, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N493AF 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 N493AF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data