Sky DutyPilatus PC-12: US Fleet Statistics
As of the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026, there are 1,418 Pilatus PC-12 aircraft with a valid US registration — ranking it #33 among all US civil aircraft model families by registration count. Every figure on this page is computed directly from the public FAA aircraft registry.
How many Pilatus PC-12s are registered in the United States?
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.
Pilatus PC-12 registrations by state
Utah has the most registered Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, with 126. The table below shows the ten states with the most Pilatus PC-12 registrations by the owner address on file with the FAA. Delaware frequently over-indexes because many aircraft are registered to Delaware LLCs and owner trusts rather than flown there.
| Rank | State | Registered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah (UT) | 126 | 8.9% |
| 2 | Texas (TX) | 117 | 8.3% |
| 3 | Florida (FL) | 106 | 7.5% |
| 4 | California (CA) | 98 | 6.9% |
| 5 | Colorado (CO) | 92 | 6.5% |
| 6 | Delaware (DE) | 61 | 4.3% |
| 7 | New Hampshire (NH) | 50 | 3.5% |
| 8 | North Carolina (NC) | 38 | 2.7% |
| 9 | Alaska (AK) | 37 | 2.6% |
| 10 | Pennsylvania (PA) | 36 | 2.5% |
Share is of all 1,418 registered Pilatus PC-12 aircraft. Based on FAA registered-owner state; not all aircraft are based where they are registered.
How old are registered Pilatus PC-12s?
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.
Model year is one of the fields Sky Duty tracks on every tail alongside Hobbs and tach times. See how the app handles aircraft and fleet records.
Pilatus PC-12 engine, seats, and aircraft class
The typical registered Pilatus PC-12 is a single-engine airplane with a single turboprop engine, configured with 11 seats. The values below are the most common across all registered Pilatus PC-12 aircraft in the FAA data; individual airframes vary by variant and configuration.
- Aircraft class
- Fixed Wing Single-Engine
- Engines
- 1 × Turboprop
- Typical seats
- 11
- Manufacturer
- Pilatus
Data: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (registry.faa.gov), snapshot 2026-07-11. Counts reflect US civil aircraft with a valid FAA registration (status codes V, M, and T). Variants of the Pilatus PC12 are grouped into a single model family. Manufacture-year bounds use the 1st and 99th percentiles to exclude data-entry outliers in the FAA year field. Figures update when the registry is re-imported.
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