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N497PC

Pilatus PC-12/45

N497PC 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 US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2003 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 2, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus
Model
PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
Serial number
497
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
Seats
12
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A62B61 (octal 51425541)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 28, 2003
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 2, 2005
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00053859

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
US Department Of Homeland Security
Type
Government
Address
1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm 6.4A
Washington, DC 20229-0002
Co-owners
US Customs & Border Protection / Office Of Air & Marine

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N497PC, 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 US Department Of Homeland Security, a government body, certificate issued October 28, 2003, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 2, 2005, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N497PC 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 N497PC. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data