{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-06-29","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-12-29","city":"MIDDLETOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52043","engine_horsepower":1050,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-60A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-12-29","maker":"Pilatus","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PILATUS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7090551","mode_s_code":"51120511","mode_s_hex":"A4A149","model":"PC-12/45","n_number":"N398J","name":"MDS LEASING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Oklahoma City","damage":"","date":"2008-01-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DFW08LA055","probable_cause":"The line technician's failure to remain clear of the propeller.  A factor was the night lighting conditions.","registration":"N398J","state":"OK","summary":"Accident on January 3, 2008 at Oklahoma City, OK: fatal.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N398J 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 Mds Leasing LLC, an LLC in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mds Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 398 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N398J according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N398J: Accident on January 3, 2008 at Oklahoma City, OK: fatal. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"398","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1232 CHOPTANK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00363994","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N398J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"197099038"}