From The Weekly of Business Aviation, Aviation Week Intelligence Network

 The PC-12 is a single-engine turboprop airframe produced by Swiss manufacturer Pilatus, the current production variant of which is marketed as the PC-12 NG. Development of the PC-12 began in 1987, with the first flight—performed by an airframe registered HB-FOA—taking place on May 31, 1991, and the airframe subsequently receiving approval from the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) on March 30, 1994. Following the certification of that original PC-12 variant, Pilatus has subsequently received approval for three additional variants—the PC-12/45, PC-12/47 and PC-12/47E—which were certified on June 4, 1996, Dec. 14, 2005, and March, 28, 2008, respectively. It is that latter variant, the PC-12/47E, that is marketed as the PC-12 NG.

Despite a number of differences between the PC-12 variants, all four have a common maximum passenger seating capacity...

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