HB-VXA (c/n P01) over the Alps during its maiden flight from Buochs. The PC-24 is Pilatus' first business jet and its first all-new aircraft since the PC-21 flew 13 years ago.

One of the two Pilatus PC-24 flight test aircraft, P01 HB-VXA, over Geneva. Pilatus says the two jets have now completed 300 flights and over 500 hours of testing.

The second Pilatus PC-24 bizjet (P02, HB-VXB) carried out its first flight from Buochs Airport, Switzerland, on November 16, 2015. It is seen here flying with P01, HB-VXA, which flew in May. The second jet will be used for systems and icing tests and cold weather trials.

Pilatus says its two PC-24 flight test aircraft have now completed more than 1,000 hours of flight testing.

11 мая 2015г. из аэропорта Бюохс впервые совершил полет первый швейцарский реактивный административный самолет Pilatus Aircraft PC-24. В этом 55-минутном полете самолетом управлял экипаж в составе командира Пауля Мюлхая (Paul Mulcahy) и второго пилота Рето Аешлиманна (Reto Aeschlimann). Завершение сертификационных испытаний и первые поставки PC-24 запланированы на 2017 г. Компания уже заключила договора на продажу 84 таких самолетов

Pilatus says it expects its new PC-24 business jet to receive both European Aviation Safety Agency and Federal Aviation Administration certification in December 2017. Three flight test aircraft, one of which is pictured here undertaking water spray testing, had amassed more than 1,250 flights and 2,000 flying hours at the time of writing.

Many of the PC-12’s most popular elements have been applied to the PC-24 business jet, including its unsealed-strip capability

Rough field certification for the Pilatus PC-24 was announced by the manufacturer on February 7, 2020. The approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency permits operations from grass, earth, sand, gravel and snow surfaces. The test campaign for the capability included flights by the prototype HB-VXA from sand and gravel runways at Woodbridge in Suffolk in 2018. Take-off and landings from grass runways took place at Goodwood and Duxford in the UK, Kunovice in the Czech Republic and at Poitiers, France. Flight tests from a snow-covered gravel runway at Kuujjuaq in Quebec, Canada, was completed in 2019. Pilatus states that the recent approval doubles the number of runways from which the PC-24 can operate.

The prototype Pilatus PC-24 during the unveiling ceremony at Buochs-Stans, Switzerland, on August 1, 2014.

The first flight test PC-24 during the type’s roll-out at Buochs on August 1, 2014.

PC-24 testing started with ground engine runs at Stans.

Pilatus had delivered 27 PC-24s by the end of September 2022 - equalling its total at that point in 2021

Pilatus PC-24 HB-VSA at Goodwood following its arrival.

PILATUS ACHIEVED type certification for its new PC-24 business jet from the European Aviation Safety Agency and the US Federal Aviation Administration on December 7, 2017, clearing the way ahead for deliveries to begin later in the month.

Pilatus PC-24, HB-WB (c/n 186), the first of six for Kommunalforbundet Svenskt Ambulansflyg (KSA) 'Swedish municipal ambulance flight,' made its maiden sortie on July 22, 2020 at its manufacturer's Stans airfield. After initial flight tests by Pilatus, the aircraft was due to be transferred to the Swiss engineering and completions company, Aerolite, to install its aeromedical interior. KSA ordered the jet in 2019 and will become the third operator of aeromedically configured PC-24s when the first is delivered to the Swedish firm early next year. The jet is to be registered SE-RVA once delivered.

Two PC-24s are on stand-by in daytime at the Swedish Air Ambulance’s new emergency base at Arlanda Airport, north of Stockholm

Pilatus is due to deliver six PC-24s to the Swedish Air Ambulance

Certification for ten passengers increases the utility and appeal of the Pilatus PC-24
Sixteen PC-24s are now being used for EMS work, including this example deployed in North Slope Borough in Alaska

Pilatus PC-24 VH-VWO (c/n 105) serving with Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service attended Avalon 2019 in air ambulance configuration.

THE ROYAL Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Western Operations division took delivery of its first Pilatus PC-24 in a ceremony in Stans on November 26, 2018.

A Royal Flying Doctor Service PC-24 in patient loading configuration
THE ROYAL Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Western Operations division took delivery of its first Pilatus PC-24 in a ceremony in Stans on November 26, 2018.

The Schweizer Luftwaffe (Swiss Air Force) announced on February 18, 2019, that it has taken delivery of a Pilatus PC-24 executive jet, for operation by the Confederation Air Transport Service and Lufttransportdienst des Bundes. Aircraft T-786 (msn 21) was handed over on the above date at a ceremony in Berne, in the presence of Pilatus' Chairman of the Board of Directors, Oskar Schwenk and Bernhard Muller, Commander of the Schweizer Luftwaffe. The aircraft was originally ordered in July 2014 and will be based at Bern-Belp, primarily for use on operations within Europe.

Pilatus PC-24, LX-PCE (c/n 200), became the 100th example of the versatile jet delivered

Customer feedback has prompted Pilatus to introduce a wide range of new capabilities for the PC-24’s avionics

Honeywell’s Primus Apex avionics, including SmartView synthetic vision and graphical planning systems, feature in the PC-24’s cockpit.

Six seats is the standard configuration for the PC-24 but five other cabin layout options are available.

A medevac interior in a Royal Flying Doctor Service PC-24

The EPIShuttle medical isolation system developed by Pilatus and Aerolite

Pilatus has designed the PC-24 to operate from rough-field strips, as can its PC-12 turboprop.

An artist's impression of the Pilatus PC-24, details of which were revealed at EBACE in Geneva, Switzerland.