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A Pilatus PC-12, the same model family as N851EB
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N851EB

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMontana

N851EB is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Bridger Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Belgrade, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 30, 2007.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bridger Aerospace, 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 Thursday at 4:39 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12/47 · all PC-12/47s 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
851
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-67B · 1200 hp
Seats
12
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ABAB75 (octal 52725565)

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 7, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 7, 2024
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 · October 30, 2007
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00431819

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bridger Aviation Services 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
90 Aviation Ln
Belgrade, MT 59714-9384
Charter N851EB with Bridger Aerospace:

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N851EB links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Belgrade, MT 182 aircraft registered in this town
  • Montana 6,049 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N851EB.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N851EB, 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 Bridger Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 7, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 851 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N851EB 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 N851EB. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data