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N653AF

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

N653AF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2016. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Rigi INC, a corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2016. 4 documents are on file: 4 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12/47E
Serial number
1653
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67P · 1272 hp
Seats
11
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A897E5 (octal 52113745)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 28, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 28, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 8, 2016
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01229538

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rigi INC
Type
Corporation
Address
115 Flightline Rd
Portsmouth, NH 03801

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Documents on file 4

2026-09-16Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-24Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-25Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-28Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N653AF, 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 Rigi INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1653 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N653AF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

4 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 25, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 28, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N653AF. 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