We Fly: Pilatus PC-12 Pro

‘Everybody’s Everything’ earns its place as the single-engine turboprop that can do it all.

Rick Durden

Monday, December 15, 2025 at 08:00 AM ET

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Edited By:

Travis Tingle

The PC-12 series has a reputation for a long center of gravity range...unless you’re carrying gold bricks in weird locations, it’s difficult to load the airplane out of CG. [Credit: Pilatus Aircraft]

Key Takeaways:

The Pilatus PC-12 Pro is the latest iteration of the highly versatile PC-12, boasting a new Garmin G3000 Prime integrated flight deck and various airframe refinements that enhance speed, useful load, and user-friendliness.
A significant upgrade, the Garmin G3000 Prime avionics suite, introduces advanced automation, connectivity, and critical safety features such as Emergency Autoland, Emergency Descent Mode, and Electronic Stability and Protection.
The PC-12 Pro maintains its legendary mission flexibility, capable of roles ranging from luxury transport to cargo hauling and medevac, with a robust design suitable for diverse operating environments.
Pilatus has incorporated operator feedback and cutting-edge technology to create an even more capable and user-friendly single-engine turboprop, embodying the "Everybody's Everything" nickname for its wide-ranging capabilities.

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In the more than 30 years the Pilatus PC-12 has been in service, its unique combination of speed, load-carrying ability, massive cargo door, large, flat-floored cabin, operating flexibility in high-density terminals as well as the backcountry, and fuel efficiency has caused it to acquire several flattering nicknames, including, and perhaps most accurate, the “Flying Turbine Suburban.”

However, after two days of flying the recently released PC-12 Pro, with its new Garmin G3000 Prime integrated flight deck (customized for Pilatus) and another 100 pounds of useful load, I came away unable to stop thinking of the title of Carlos Santana’s 1971 hard-driving rock song, “Everybody’s Everything.”