Pilatus PC-12 — U.S. Fleet History Data
Turboprop · 1,409 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1994–2026
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Pilatus PC-12 airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 32 — Landing Gear : 56 reports
- 21 — Air Conditioning : 33 reports
- 27 — Flight Controls : 26 reports
- 24 — Electrical Power : 22 reports
- 34 — Navigation : 22 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2026-15-07 · effective 2026-09-03 — report that, during an engine start on the ground, the airplane battery voltage dropped to a value that resulted in an avionic system shutdown
- AD 2026-12-01 · effective 2026-07-14 — report of the stall warning protection system (SWPS) engaging when not appropriate
- AD 2026-08-11 · effective 2026-05-11 — report that a brake shuttle valve (BSV) on a production airplane shuttled and isolated the brake line to the left- hand (LH) brake, which resulted in brake lock
- AD 2024-08-07 (recurring) · effective 2024-06-03 — revising the airworthiness limitation section (ALS) of the existing aircraft maintenance manual (AMM) or Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) for your airplane by introdu
- AD 2023-09-12 · effective 2023-07-05 — mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe condition on an a
ADs published since 2004 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.
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