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N216TA

Air Tractor Inc AT-602

Valid Louisiana

N216TA is an Air Tractor Inc AT-602, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tailwinds Air INC, a corporation in Morganza, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated April 30, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-602 · all AT-602s and related versions
Serial number
602-1227
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-65AG · 1300 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A1D176 (octal 50350566)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 25, 2019
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · April 30, 2013
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01121877

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tailwinds Air INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 331
Morganza, LA 70759-0331

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N216TA, 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 Tailwinds Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 25, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated April 30, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 602-1227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N216TA according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N216TA: Accident on May 23, 2025 at Goudeau, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN25LA187Accident on May 23, 2025 at Goudeau, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT-602 · operated under 137

The pilot’s inadvertent encounter with soft terrain conditions during the landing which resulted in a loss of directional and a subsequent nose-over.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA187 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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