Air Tractor Inc AT-502
N15189 is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation in Ulysses, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 8, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502 · all AT-502s and related versions
- Serial number
- 502-0155
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A0D178 (octal 50150570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · October 8, 1991
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00013662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9170 E Road 2
Ulysses, KS 67880-8151
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15189, 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 Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation, certificate issued July 19, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 8, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502-0155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15189 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7305033, cancelled December 11, 1979). 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 N15189: Accident on May 19, 2024 at Covert, KS: no 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 INC AT-502 · operated under 137
The improper maintenance of the fuel control unit, which resulted in air leakage and a loss of control of fuel flow to the engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA193 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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