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Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E
N617BG is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2010. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Life Flight Network LLC, an LLC in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 15, 2010.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Life Flight Network LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 1253
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A808DF (octal 52004337)
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 24, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- 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 · November 15, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01061418
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Life Flight Network 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
- 22285 Yellow Gate Ln NE Ste 102
Aurora, OR 97002-8400
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N617BG links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,447 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,365 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Life Flight Network LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 509 aircraft with this engine series · 1272 hp
- Life Flight Network LLC 53 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, OR 271 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora State Airport · UAO
- Oregon 7,008 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-67P 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 63 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N617BG.json.
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The public federal record on N617BG, 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 Life Flight Network LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 24, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 15, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N617BG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-300 (serial A067 S.A., cancelled February 4, 2009). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N617BG: Incident on September 12, 2013 at Austin, TX: minor injuries, minor damage. Accident on March 25, 2002 at Anderson, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pilatus Aircraft LTD PC-12/47E · operated under 135
The pilot’s improper weight and balance calculations, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its weight and center-of-gravity limits and led to a loss of pitch control during takeoff, and the operator’s failure to obtain required weight information and to ensure that the flight was properly loaded.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-300 · operated under 135
Missed approach not executed and flight to a destination alternate not performed by the flight crew. The tail wind and snow/ice covered runway were contributing factors.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data