The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N939PC

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E

Valid Iowa

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
Model
PC-12/47E · all PC-12/47Es and related versions
Serial number
2264
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6E-67XP · 1200 hp
Seats
11
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AD0860 (octal 53204140)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 15, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 15, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 18, 2023
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01405818

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bad Ass Pilatus LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2651 170Th St
Des Moines, IA 50158

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

1992-03-03Cresawn Len PITTS S-1C · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bad Ass Pilatus LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2264 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N939PC: Accident on September 3, 1991 at Calhan, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DEN91DTE02Accident on September 3, 1991 at Calhan, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: --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.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91DTE02 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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