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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N755AF
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N755AF

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Hampshire

N755AF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2017. It has 11 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2017.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Cobalt Air, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 6:56 pm.

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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 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
1755
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
Seats
11
Year built
2017
Transponder code
AA2CA2 (octal 52426242)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 6, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 6, 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 · November 28, 2017
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01268302

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Howard Phipps J JR
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
115 Flight Line Ave
Portsmouth, NH 03801-6811
Co-owners
Mobile Communications America INC / Northlight Management LLC / Pem Holdings LLC / Seaviewplane LLC / Sunset Cay Orc Partners LLC

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

2005-02-03Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N755AF links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N755AF.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N755AF, 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 Howard Phipps J JR, a co-owned, certificate issued August 6, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1755 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N755AF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 (serial 755SA, cancelled February 3, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N755AF: Accident on May 14, 2004 at Ferndale, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

IAD04FA021Accident on May 14, 2004 at Ferndale, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 755SA

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 · operated under 135

The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during a sharp turn, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and subsequent impact with terrain. Factors included the pilot's failure to fly to the intended point of landing, and his abrupt course reversal back towards it.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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