Turboprops
Pilatus PC-12 NGX
The short-field specialist. A 2,458 ft takeoff run and a cargo door wide enough for skis, bikes or a dog crate, in a cabin wider than a King Air’s.
PC-12 NGX
Mission profile
The short-field specialist. A 2,458 ft takeoff run and a cargo door wide enough for skis, bikes or a dog crate, in a cabin wider than a King Air’s.
Typical routes
- Boca Raton → Key West
- Teterboro → Nantucket
- Aspen → Telluride
- Palm Beach → Stuart
Verified specifications
The numbers, with their conditions attached.
A manufacturer's headline range assumes a lightly loaded aircraft at long-range cruise. Publishing that figure beside a seat count is how buyers get misled, so we publish both and plan against the realistic one.
- Typical seats
- 6
- Maximum seats
- 9
- Full-cabin range
- 1,000 nm
- Manufacturer max range
- 1,803 nm
- Max cruise
- 290 kt
- Planning cruise
- 275 kt
- Ceiling
- 30,000 ft
- Cabin length
- 16 ft 10 in
- Cabin height
- 4 ft 8 in
- Cabin width
- 5 ft 0 in
- Baggage
- 40 cu ft, loaded through the aft cargo door
- Crew
- One or two pilots
About that range figure
Four passengers with available fuel, long-range cruise, standard day. The normal-range figure at a fuller cabin is 1,568 nm.
For planning a real trip with the cabin filled, we use 1,000 nm. That is the number the configurator on this site checks against before it recommends this aircraft for your route.
Worth knowing
- High-density layouts seat nine or ten. Executive charter configuration is six, and six is the number we quote.
- A single-engine turboprop. It is certified and flown commercially worldwide and its safety record is excellent, but some clients prefer two engines — the King Air is the alternative and we will say so rather than wait to be asked.
Common questions
How many passengers does the Pilatus PC-12 NGX seat?
6 in a typical charter configuration, with a maximum certified capacity of 9. The typical figure is the comfortable one and is what we quote against.
What is the range of the Pilatus PC-12 NGX?
The manufacturer figure is 1,803 nautical miles — Four passengers with available fuel, long-range cruise, standard day. The normal-range figure at a fuller cabin is 1,568 nm. For planning a trip with a full cabin, use approximately 1,000 nautical miles.
How fast is the Pilatus PC-12 NGX?
Maximum cruise is 290 knots true airspeed. We plan flight times at 275 knots, which is closer to how the aircraft is actually flown in service.
Can you stand up in the Pilatus PC-12 NGX?
Not fully. The cabin is 4 ft 8 in high, so you stoop to move between seats. On flights of two or three hours most people find that entirely acceptable; on longer legs a larger category is worth the additional cost.
Turboprops
Others in this category
The right answer under an hour.
Beechcraft King Air 350i
The largest cabin in the turboprop category and the one that seats a real party of eight. A 3,300 ft takeoff run opens up fields a light jet has to decline.
- Seats
- 8
- Range
- 1,200 nm
- Cruise
- 312 kt
Cessna Grand Caravan EX
The short-field and island aircraft. A 2,160 ft takeoff over a 50 ft obstacle, a cabin door big enough to load anything, and the ability to use strips that every other aircraft here has to decline.
- Seats
- 9
- Range
- 600 nm
- Cruise
- 185 kt
Ask about the Pilatus PC-12 NGX
Availability and pricing for this aircraft are confirmed by us against live operator inventory — never generated automatically. Tell us the trip and we will come back personally.
- Answered personally — never a call center
- 24/7, answered right away
- No list, no reseller, no follow-up you did not ask for
Two ways to fly the Pilatus PC-12 NGX: the Velocity Jet Card, which fixes your terms in advance, or on-demand charter with no membership at all. Which one suits you depends on how often you fly.
Your Jet Card, priced around the way you actually fly.
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