Electric tug for the Pilatus PC-12

A PC-12 is the airplane that makes a piston tug feel small and a full airport tug feel like too much machine for a private hangar. It is a single-engine turboprop with a real ramp presence, and it still has to come out for an early departure and go back into a row at night, often with the same person who flies it. An electric tug for the Pilatus PC-12 is how that move stays a one-person job without a diesel left running in the hangar.

GRAVITY names the PC-12 directly. The compatible line is light jets and turboprops such as the Cirrus Vision Jet, the Daher TBM series and the Pilatus PC-12, and twin-engine piston aircraft. Published towing capacity is 5,000 kg as standard, or 7,000 kg with the optional upgrade. We do not publish a separate PC-12 weight, and we will not invent one here. The tug rating and the fact that the PC-12 is a named type are the claims the product page already makes.

The operator walks behind the tug. An electric winch pulls the nose wheel onto the glass-fiber deck. Leather-protected webbing secures it. The drive is 48 V and 1,200 W. The tug weighs 170 kg. Maximum load on the ramp is 750 kg, for thresholds rather than for the whole airplane. Grass and asphalt are both specified, which is why mixed-surface fields show up in the GRAVITY use cases: a PC-12 that lives on a grass strip is the same class of job as one that lives on a paved apron.

The use case written for this tug is a day of repeats. A Vision Jet out for a morning flight, a TBM moved for maintenance, a PC-12 back into a tight hangar row at night, all single-handed. If the PC-12 is the only airplane, the same pattern still holds: out, reposition, back in, without booking a second person or a shared airport tug. DISCOVERY stops at 2,500 kg and is published for piston singles such as the SR22. It is not the PC-12 tug.

ROVER also reaches 5,000 kg, and 7,000 kg depending on configuration, but it is the remote-controlled tug named for Cessna and Piper types through light twins. The PC-12 is named on GRAVITY. CHALLENGER, coming soon, is for large-cabin business jets and does not replace the walk-behind tug that already lists this turboprop. If you also fly a Daher TBM or a Vision Jet, they sit on the same published rating.

Tell us the variant and the hangar surface when you request a quote. We will confirm the standard 5,000 kg rating or the 7,000 kg upgrade against that airplane. There is no price on this page. The quote form on the homepage is the only next step.