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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N556PF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N556PF

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47G

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesUtah

N556PF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Map Air LLC, an LLC in Saint George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 6:14 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12/47G · all PC-12/47Gs and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
3082
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
Seats
10
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A71700 (octal 51613400)

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 30, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 30, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01558469

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Map Air 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 910399
Saint George, UT 84791-0399

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 1

2026-10-02Loan or lien (security agreement)

Connections how N556PF links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
  • Map Air LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
  • Saint George, UT 189 aircraft registered in this town
  • Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N556PF.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N556PF, 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 Map Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 30, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N556PF according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 2, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N556PF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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