{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-04-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"STONE HARBOR","country_code":"US","county_code":"009","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52032","engine_horsepower":750,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"PT6A SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-05","maker":"Pilatus Aircraft Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7090051","mode_s_code":"51547106","mode_s_hex":"A6CE46","model":"PC-12/45","n_number":"N538BH","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N538BH is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2005. It has 12 seats. It is registered to an individual in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 20, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 20, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 626 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N538BH 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N538BH. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":12,"serial_number":"626","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"551 BERKLEY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00171569","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N538BH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"082471304"}