Air Tractor Inc AT-502
N1540S is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Arthur Aviation LLC, an LLC in Arthur, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 24, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502 · all AT-502s and related versions
- Serial number
- 502-0171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A0DB74 (octal 50155564)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 24, 1992
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00993842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arthur Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 429 Main St
Arthur, ND 58006-7719
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1540S, 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 Arthur Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 24, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502-0171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1540S according to the deregistered file. [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 N1540S: Accident on July 21, 2022 at East Grand Forks, MN: 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 pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from the power lines during a low-level application pass.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA342 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data