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In June 2010, Pilatus announced that the 1,000th PC-12 had been delivered. [39] By August 2013, the worldwide PC-12 fleet had accumulated a combined total of 4 million flight hours and 1,200 PC-12s had been delivered to customers. [40] Just over a year after the 1300th, the 1400th PC-12 was delivered in July 2016.
Announced at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015, the aircraft is a completely new design, not derived from any existing aircraft. [4] It should compete primarily with the nine-passenger Pilatus PC-12 as well as slightly faster and smaller single-engine turboprops such as the Epic E1000, Piper M700 Fury, and SOCATA TBM. [5]
The prototype PC-12 was flown on 31 May 1991. [9] On 30 March 1994, the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation issued the type certificate for the PC-12; [26] The first PC-12 Eagle surveillance aircraft was built in 1995, further developments led to the PC-12 Spectre; amongst other customers, it was adopted by the United States Air Force as the ...
Earhart and Jordan started the global circumnavigation flight on June 26, 2014, departing Oakland, California at 8:19 am Pacific Standard Time in a single engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. They made 17 stops during the 24,300 nautical-mile trip over 108 flying hours, landing back in Oakland without incident on July 11, 2014.
About 1 p.m. Mountain Time in Campbell County, Wyoming, a Pilatus PC-12/47E single-engine aircraft crashed north of Gillette, about 223 miles north of Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming. The crash started a wildfire which firefighters contained to an area smaller than one square mile.
When Encompass took over all Surf Air operations, it retained all Surf Air's pilots and aircraft. Encompass is based in Hawthorne, California and is an FAA Part 135 operator. [12] In June 2018, it was reported the IRS had put liens totaling nearly $2.5 million against Surf Air for unpaid federal excise tax.
In 1994, George Antoniadis arranged a visit to Pilatus Aircraft Stans, Switzerland, to view their new turboprop model - the PC-12. He reviewed the PC-12, analyzed its operating characteristics and soon became convinced that it was the airplane he'd been seeking. He placed an order in September 1995 and took delivery of the 20th Pilatus PC-12 ...
Pilatus PC-12 NG; Pilatus PC-21; Pilatus PC-24; Pilatus SB-2 Pelican; Pilatus U-28A; Pilgrim ... (American Aeronautical Corporation, New York, NY) Pioneer 1933 ...