Pilatus PC-12
Swiss-built single-engine turboprop with a cargo door that swallows skis, and a staple of West Coast regional charter.
Rates are the turboprop class band from our estimator. A specific Pilatus PC-12's quote depends on its operator, age, and home base.
Single engine, one wide cabin, and a big rear cargo door that takes skis and golf bags. That is the PC-12, the airplane that made single-engine turboprop charter mainstream. Swiss-built by Pilatus, it uses short strips and unpaved ones, so the same airframe hauls executives on Monday and freight or a medevac stretcher on Tuesday. Thousands are flying, and the safety and dispatch record is what operators point to when a passenger asks about the one engine up front.
Send the PC-12 on a Southern California trip when the bags outnumber the people. Golf bags, skis, a week of luggage for six all go through that door and ride behind the seats, at a per-hour cost no jet matches. Against a light jet it is the slower airplane, and on a hop to Vegas, the desert, or the Sierra the difference amounts to minutes, most of them spent looking at the mountains.
Empty legs observed right now whose listed aircraft is a Pilatus PC-12, in your region.
