Pilatus PC-12/45
N98WS is a Pilatus PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2001. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Silverbird LLC, an LLC in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 2001.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 1:41 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus
- Model
- PC-12/45 · all PC-12/45s 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
- 435
- 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-67B · 1200 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- ADAAD0 (octal 53325320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 3, 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 · December 21, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00594007
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Silverbird 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
- 59 Damonte Ranch Pkwy # B163
Reno, NV 89521-1907
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 3
Connections how N98WS links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus PC-12 1,445 registered
- Pilatus 403 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 PT6A-67B 277 aircraft with this engine series · 1200 hp
- Silverbird LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Reno, NV 665 aircraft registered in this town
- Reno/Tahoe International · RNO
- Reno/Stead Airport · RTS
- Spanish Springs Airport · N86
- Nevada 4,587 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-67B 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B 31 reports since 1995
- Where N98WS is now · Last seen October 18 at 1:41 pm.
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The public federal record on N98WS, 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 Silverbird LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 23, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 21, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 435 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98WS was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cameron Balloons Us V-77 (serial 5584, cancelled April 24, 2018); Cameron Balloons N-77 (serial 5132, cancelled July 27, 2011); Boeing 707-321B (serial 18338, cancelled date not given). 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 N98WS. 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