Pilatus PC-12/45
N852AL is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation in Shreveport, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 2000.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Metro Aviation, INC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen today at 7:36 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 213
- 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-60A · 1050 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ABAED1 (octal 52727321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- 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 · June 21, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00805850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1214 Hawn Ave
Shreveport, LA 71107-6612
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.
Connections how N852AL links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,447 registered
- Pilatus 403 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Metro Aviation, INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 1,177 aircraft with this engine series · 1050 hp
- Metro Aviation INC 69 aircraft in the fleet
- Shreveport, LA 276 aircraft registered in this town
- Shreveport Downtown Airport · DTN
- Shreveport Regional · SHV
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,658 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-12 205 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 2 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Relay, failed · 2024-12-16
- Report filed on this aircraft: Aoa, out of adjust · 2016-03-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Probe, out of adjust · 2015-05-25
- Where N852AL is now · Last seen today at 7:36 am.
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The public federal record on N852AL, 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.
Valid registration to Metro Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 15, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 21, 2000, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N852AL according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N852AL: Accident on December 29, 2001 at Sunriver, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pilatus PC-12 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. An icy runway and a snow bank were factors.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data