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Registration and identity

Current status, owner of record, certificate dates, and the airworthiness-date anomalies that signal a re-issued certificate.

Prior tails and reuse

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Accident and incident record

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N927JC Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, 2008

N927JC is a Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2008. It has 11 seats. It is registered to M13 Holding LLC, an LLC in Hawthorne, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 28, 2016.

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CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to M13 Holding LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 11, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 2016, 8 years after the 2008 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. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N927JC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N927JC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of September 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of September 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of September 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

What the full report adds

The free check reads what the FAA and NTSB publish in bulk. The full report goes to the sources that are not published in bulk and have to be requested, read and reconciled by a person:

REPORTFAA aircraft records file

Every document ever filed against the aircraft: bills of sale, security agreements and releases, 337 major-repair forms, airworthiness applications. This is where the cause of a re-issued airworthiness certificate is documented.

REPORTTitle chain and liens

The conveyance sequence from first registration to today, and every lien with its release or its absence. For larger aircraft, the International Registry of mobile assets.

REPORTEntity layer

Who stands behind the owner of record: single-asset entities, operator affiliations, shared addresses, and what that means for conveyance authority at closing.

REPORTOperation and utilization

Commercial use under Part 135 or 91, basing and climate exposure, listing history, and flight-activity reconciliation against the logbooks.

REPORTAirworthiness directives

AD compliance assembled against the maintenance records, with the open items listed.

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