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N196CF, a Air Tractor Inc AT-802A
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026
N196CF

Air Tractor Inc AT-802A

Valid (manufacturer)FAA registration status code M: Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate. All codesTexas

N196CF is an Air Tractor Inc AT-802A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Air Tractor INC, a corporation in Olney, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Where is it now Last seen today at 4:03 pm.

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Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map

Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-802A · all AT-802As and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A crop sprayer and fire bomber: welded steel-tube fuselage under aluminium skins. This is how the Air Tractor Inc AT-802 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
802A-1277
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A17EAD (octal 50277255)

Registration

Status
Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificateFAA registration status code M (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
November 19, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01529219

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Tractor INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 485
Olney, TX 76374-0485

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

2006-02-21Learjet Inc 24B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N196CF links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
  • Air Tractor INC 38 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to September 28, 2027
Place
  • Olney, TX 51 aircraft registered in this town
  • Olney Municipal · ONY
  • Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N196CF.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N196CF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Tractor INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 802A-1277 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N196CF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Learjet Inc 24B (serial 186, cancelled February 21, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N196CF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data