{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-03-06","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-05-28","city":"CORPUS CHRISTI","country_code":"US","county_code":"273","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52158","engine_horsepower":1200,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-67B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Pilatus Aircraft Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7090552","mode_s_code":"50551141","mode_s_hex":"A2D261","model":"PC-12/47","n_number":"N281H","name":"STERLING AIR SERVICE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N281H is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2007. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Sterling Air Service LLC, an LLC in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sterling Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 799 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N281H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial AF-694, cancelled October 14, 2009); General Aircraft Corp. 102-E (serial 23, cancelled August 30, 1940). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N281H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"799","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 18659","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00331079","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N281H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"784808659"}