Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E
N939PC is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Bad Ass Pilatus LLC, an LLC in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 18, 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
- 2264
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD0860 (octal 53204140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2026
- 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 · May 18, 2023
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01405818
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bad Ass Pilatus LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2651 170Th St
Des Moines, IA 50158
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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
Connections how N939PC links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,443 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,359 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
- Bad Ass Pilatus LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Des Moines, IA 108 aircraft registered in this town
- Des Moines International · DSM
- Iowa 4,503 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,657 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
- Where N939PC is now · Last seen Monday at 7:21 am.
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The public federal record on N939PC, 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 Bad Ass Pilatus LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2264 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N939PC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cresawn Len PITTS S-1C (serial 1, cancelled March 3, 1992). 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 N939PC: Accident on September 3, 1991 at Calhan, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Cresawn Pitts S1-C · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN ADEQUATE AIRCRAFT CONTROL TO AVOID TERRAIN COLLISION.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data