Pilatus PC-9/A
N90AD is a Pilatus PC-9/A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dalks Leasing INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, exhibition, dated August 8, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 2:39 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-9/A · all PC-9/As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Pilatus PC-9 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
- 547
- 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 PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- AC6CD7 (octal 53066327)
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 4, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, exhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 9D (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 8, 2022
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01318889
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dalks Leasing 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
- 1209 N Orange St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1120
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N90AD links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-9 29 registered
- Pilatus 403 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Dalks Leasing INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,376 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,959 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Where N90AD is now · Last seen October 17 at 2:39 pm.
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The public federal record on N90AD, 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 Dalks Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 4, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 8, 2022, 31 years after the 1991 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 547 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90AD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna P210N (serial P21000156, cancelled August 22, 2013). 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 N90AD: Accident on February 23, 1996 at Hazard, KY: minor 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: Cessna P210N · operated under 091
failure of the engine crankshaft, which resulted in loss of engine power, a forced landing, and subsequent damage to the airplane. A factor relating to the accident was: lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data