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N79CS

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12

Valid Iowa

N79CS is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. It has 12 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12 · all PC-12s and related versions
Serial number
125
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-67B · 1200 hp
Seats
12
Year built
1995
Transponder code
AAB5EF (octal 52532757)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 22, 2022
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 24, 2019
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00305661

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ford Gt Holdings LLC
Type
Co-owned
Address
804 Kenyon Rd Ste 120
Fort Dodge, IA 50501-5746
Co-owners
186 Holdings LLC

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2012-10-22Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Sale reported, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N79CS, 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 Ford Gt Holdings LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued January 22, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 2019, 24 years after the 1995 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N79CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 7879, cancelled October 22, 2012). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N79CS. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data