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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s and related versions
- Serial number
- 213
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ABAED1 (octal 52727321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 21, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00805850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA02LA029 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data