Pilatus PC-12: US Fleet Statistics

The FAA aircraft registry lists 1,418 Pilatus PC-12 aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Pilatus PC-12 is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Pilatus PC12 together. It ranks #33 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.

These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.

The median registered Pilatus PC-12 was manufactured in 2011. Most were built between 2000 and 2023, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1995 to 2025. A manufacture year is on file for 1,297 of the 1,418 registered aircraft.

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The FAA registry lists 1,418 Pilatus PC-12 aircraft with a valid US registration — about 10.2% of all turboprop-powered aircraft in the US crewed fleet, and #33 of the 75 model families tracked here. The registered fleet carries a median manufacture year of 2011, newer than the overall US general-aviation fleet, whose median airframe dates to 1979. By state, Utah, Texas, and Florida together account for 24.6% of the fleet, and the top ten states hold 53.7%.

The Pilatus PC-12 accounts for roughly a tenth of every turboprop-powered aircraft on the US registry — one of the highest single-model shares of the entire turboprop fleet, and a sign of how thoroughly it defined the single-engine-turboprop category.

Its registrations lean toward the mountain west, with Utah and Colorado near the top of the list alongside Texas and Florida. That distribution is consistent with the type’s high-and-hot, short-field mission profile. New Hampshire’s presence reflects the PC-12’s heavy use in fractional and managed-fleet programs, and Delaware again appears larger than its size because of trust and LLC registrations.

Shares are computed from the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026. Engine-type share is of all turboprop-powered aircraft in the crewed US fleet; state shares are of all 1,418 registered Pilatus PC-12 aircraft.

The Pilatus PC-12, built by Pilatus of Switzerland, is the definitive single-engine turboprop for business and utility flying: a large-cabin aircraft with short- and unimproved-field capability. It is operated by owner-pilots, corporate flight departments, fractional programs, air-ambulance services, and regional charter and cargo operators alike.

Its single-engine operating economics, flat-floor cabin, and runway flexibility make it a fixture in the mountain west and in medevac and utility roles. Many operators run a single PC-12 as their entire flight department, which puts a premium on simple, mobile record-keeping over enterprise dispatch software.