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Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-24
N978TC is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-24, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2022. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Texas Children'S Hospital, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated September 15, 2022.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of PHI Health,LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 4:13 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-24 · all PC-24s 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. This is how the Pilatus PC-24 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
- 262
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-4A-QPM · 3,433 lb thrust
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ADA309 (octal 53321411)
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 12, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2024
- 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 15, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01376641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Children'S Hospital
- 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
- 6621 Fannin St
Houston, TX 77030-2358
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 N978TC links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-24 201 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
- PHI Health,LLC · charter operator
- Williams International FJ44-4A-QPM 156 aircraft with this engine series · 3,433 lb thrust
- Texas Children'S Hospital 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Houston, TX 1,183 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,938 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-24 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-24 47 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-24 10 supplemental type certificates
- Where N978TC is now · Last seen October 12 at 4:13 pm.
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The public federal record on N978TC, 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 Texas Children'S Hospital, a corporation, certificate issued June 12, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for commuter, dated September 15, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 262 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N978TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Colt Balloons Ltd 105-A (serial 1507US, cancelled April 14, 2011). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N978TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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