Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E
N986AC is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2018. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Avera Mckennan, a corporation in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 16, 2018.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Avera Mckennan, so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 1786
- 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 PT6A-67P · 1272 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- ADC171 (octal 53340561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- 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 · April 16, 2018
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01274874
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avera Mckennan
- 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
- 1325 S Cliff Ave
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-1007
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 N986AC links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,446 registered
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd 1,363 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Avera Mckennan · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 510 aircraft with this engine series · 1272 hp
- Avera Mckennan 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Sioux Falls, SD 248 aircraft registered in this town
- Joe Foss Field · FSD
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pilatus PC-12 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Pilatus PC-12 1,658 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Pilatus PC-12 205 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P 63 reports since 1995
- Where N986AC is now · Last seen today at 11:10 am.
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The public federal record on N986AC, 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 Avera Mckennan, a corporation, certificate issued August 9, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 16, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1786 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N986AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172L (serial 17259289, cancelled February 7, 2007). 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 N986AC: Accident on September 17, 2004 at Kill Devil Hlls, NC: serious 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 172L · operated under 091
An in-flight encounter with a downdraft on final approach, which resulted in a loss of control of the airplane and subsequent collision with the ground.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data