PlaneSense is planning to bring satellite Wi-Fi to its Pilatus PC-12 turboprops and PC-24 jets in stages. In its November 6 quarterly update, equipment supplier Gogo restated the target of finishing installations by the end of 2027. It did not give a count of aircraft already fitted.
Jets and turboprops follow different schedules
When the fractional operator announced the plan on October 15, it listed 51 PC-12s and 20 PC-24s, for 71 aircraft. The plan also includes future deliveries. The selected Gogo Galileo HDX equipment connects to Eutelsat’s OneWeb network of low Earth orbit satellites.
PlaneSense targeted late October for the first equipped PC-24 delivery and the start of work on jets already in the fleet. It planned to have subsequent new PC-24s fitted at the factory. The operator listed November as the start month for installations on its PC-12 turboprops. Gogo’s update did not confirm either the first jet delivery or the start of the turboprop installations.
A fleet plan is not a service status
This is an upgrade, not the operator’s first move into cabin internet. In a February 2023 update, PlaneSense reported that some of its PC-12s were already flying with active Gogo AVANCE L3 systems as it worked through that earlier rollout.
Factory installation on a new jet and a retrofit on an aircraft already flying are two different paths to the same planned upgrade. Neither a delivery target nor a fleetwide announcement tells a passenger whether the aircraft assigned to a particular trip has active satellite service. If the connection matters for a trip, the useful question is what service is active on the assigned aircraft, not whether its model is on the rollout list.
