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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N785AF
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N785AF

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

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

N785AF is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2018. It has 11 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 13, 2018.

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 Monday at 7:18 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
1785
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
2018
Transponder code
AAA31F (octal 52521437)

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 3, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 3, 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 · April 13, 2018
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
01274715

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jssp LLC
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 Flightline Rd
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Co-owners
Butlers Island LLC / Heneghan Kevin J / Mvgp Aviation LLC / Coen Oil Company LLC / Chang Adelle Trustee

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.

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The public federal record on N785AF, 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 Jssp LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued September 3, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 13, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1785 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N785AF according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N785AF. 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