Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E
N85CH is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2022. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Trust & Financing CORP Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 22, 2023.
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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 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
- 2212
- 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 PT6E-67XP · 1200 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ABA539 (octal 52722471)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 18, 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 · December 22, 2023
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01431849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Trust & Financing CORP Trustee
- 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
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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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 2
Connections how N85CH links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,445 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,361 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6E-67XP 294 aircraft with this engine series · 1200 hp
- Aircraft Trust & Financing CORP Trustee 24 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,374 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 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 PT6E-67XP 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N85CH, 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 Aircraft Trust & Financing CORP Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued December 18, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 22, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85CH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: New Piper Aircraft Inc PA-34-220T (serial 3449337, cancelled July 5, 2022); Hamby Charles E Jr ACRODUSTER TOO SA750 (serial BAILEYSA1, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N85CH: Accident on June 1, 1990 at Columbus, IN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sattler AERODUSTER SA750 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT GROUND SWERVE. THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE AIRPLANE WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data