Air Tractor Inc AT-502
N1012Z is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Buffalo Aviation LLC, an LLC in Monette, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 8, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502 · all AT-502s and related versions
- Serial number
- 502-0044
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A00B21 (octal 50005441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 8, 1989
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00224491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buffalo Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 456
Monette, AR 72447-0456
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N1012Z, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Buffalo Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 28, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 8, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502-0044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1012Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hruby Joseph H-2 (serial 100, cancelled July 18, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1012Z: Accident on October 13, 1989 at Heafer, AR: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-502 · operated under 137
THE INTENTIONAL SWERVE BY THE PILOT DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL.CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE ROUGH AND SOFT TERRAIN CONDITIONS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data