Pilatus PC-12 — U.S. Fleet History & Risk 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 2026-12-01 · 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 — The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2023-12- 17, which applied to Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Model PC-12, PC- 12/45, PC-12/47, and PC-12/47E airplanes. AD 2023-12-17 required revising the airworthiness limitation section (ALS) of the existing aircraft maintenance manual (AMM) or Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) for your airplane by introducing new and more restrictive instructions and maintenance tasks as specified in the component limitations section, which includes repetitive inspections for cracks in the lower main spar connection of the horizontal stabili
- 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
- AD 2023-07-08 · effective 2023-05-19 — 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 Open/superseded status reflects our last sync.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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