{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-11-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-11-20","city":"CORPUS CHRISTI","country_code":"US","county_code":"355","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":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"Pilatus Aircraft Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7090550","mode_s_code":"53075755","mode_s_hex":"AC7BED","model":"PC-12","n_number":"N903SM","name":"STERLING AIR SERVICE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N903SM is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. 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 November 20, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 20, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sterling Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 20, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 20, 1998, 3 years after the 1995 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 131 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N903SM 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 N903SM. 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":"131","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"574 HANGAR LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00125741","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N903SM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1995,"zip":"784061821"}