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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
- Model
- PC-24 · all PC-24s and related versions
- Serial number
- 262
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-4A-QPM · 3,433 lb thrust
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- ADA309 (octal 53321411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Commuter · September 15, 2022
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01376641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Children'S Hospital
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 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