Pilatus Flugzeugwerkeag Stans P3-05
N863A is a Pilatus Flugzeugwerkeag Stans P3-05, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Great Circle LLC, an LLC in Charleston, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 10, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Flugzeugwerkeag Stans
- Model
- P3-05
- Serial number
- 501-50
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-480-G2F6 · 280 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Transponder code
- ABD9FC (octal 52754774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 10, 2022
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01341843
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Great Circle LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 89 Logan St
Charleston, SC 29401-1944
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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
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The public federal record on N863A, 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 Great Circle LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 10, 2022, 64 years after the 1958 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-50 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N863A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22 (serial 22166, cancelled April 26, 1994). 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 N863A: Accident on January 3, 1988 at Stanley, WI: 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: Piper PA-22 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA043 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
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