We Fly Pilatus' PC-12 NGX Over The Colorado Mountains
You get to sit up front with the pilot!
It’s been six years since Pilatus Aircraft upgraded the venerable single-engine PC-12 utility turboprop to the NGX version, and Pilatus announced in early 2025 that it was switching the PC-12’s avionics to a full Garmin suite. But before that, BJT sister-publication Aviation International News editor-in-chief Matt Thurber visited Pilatus Business Aircraft’s U.S. headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado, where he got the opportunity to fly the latest PC-12 NGX and experience all the great features of this airplane as it had developed over the years since it first entered service in 1994. Since then, Pilatus has built more than 2,000 PC-12s, and the type is still going strong.
The NGX is the last of the PC-12s with a Honeywell avionics suite, which came online in 2008, and its capable and powerful avionics made for a smooth transition for pilots moving into Pilatus’ PC-24 jet, which has the same avionics suite.