Pilatus PC-12/45
N5DM is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2000. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Guardian Flight LLC, an LLC in Lewisville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 19, 2000.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Guardian Flight, LLC., so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 355
- 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
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A63595 (octal 51432625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 2, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 6, 2025
- 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 19, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00263795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Guardian Flight 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
- 4400 State Highway 121 Ste 700
Lewisville, TX 75056-4952
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 N5DM links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,447 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
- Guardian Flight, LLC. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 277 aircraft with this engine series · 1200 hp
- Guardian Flight LLC 66 aircraft in the fleet
- Lewisville, TX 124 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,960 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Altimeter, failed · 2026-03-30
- Report filed on this aircraft: Altimeter, inoperative · 2026-02-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Display, failed · 2013-03-14
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The public federal record on N5DM, 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 Guardian Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 2, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 19, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 355 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5DM 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 N5DM: Accident on June 12, 1982 at Abilene, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Learjet 23 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data