Air Tractor Inc AT-602
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-602 · all AT-602s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A crop sprayer: welded steel-tube fuselage under aluminium skins, aluminium wings. This is how the Air Tractor Inc AT-602 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
- 602-1227
- 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 · P&W Canada PT6A-65AG · 1300 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A1D176 (octal 50350566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 14 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 30, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01121877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tailwinds Air 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 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.
Connections how N216TA links to the rest of the register
- Air Tractor Inc AT-602 245 registered
- Air Tractor Inc 1,811 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65AG 430 aircraft with this engine series · 1300 hp
- Tailwinds Air INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Morganza, LA 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Air Tractor Inc AT-602 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Air Tractor Inc AT-602 11 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Air Tractor Inc AT-602 62 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65AG 2 airworthiness directives
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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.
Valid registration to Tailwinds Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 25, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated April 30, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 602-1227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N216TA 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 N216TA: Accident on May 23, 2025 at Goudeau, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data