Pilatus PC-12/45
N537JF is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2004. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Rad Aviation II LLC, an LLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 2004.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 12:52 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s 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
- 537
- 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 PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A6CB3C (octal 51545474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 23, 2026
- 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 · January 26, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00087709
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rad Aviation II 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
- 6256 Benefit Dr
Baton Rouge, LA 70809-4248
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N537JF links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,443 registered
- Pilatus 403 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 PT6A series 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Rad Aviation II LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Baton Rouge, LA 227 aircraft registered in this town
- Baton Rouge Metro, Ryan Field · BTR
- Louisiana 3,733 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 PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Where N537JF is now · Last seen October 16 at 12:52 pm.
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The public federal record on N537JF, 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 Rad Aviation II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 23, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 26, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 537 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N537JF 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 N537JF. 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