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N2256L

Ayres Corporation S2R-T34

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIowa

N2256L is an Ayres Corporation S2R-T34, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Crop Dusters LLC, an LLC in Maurice, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; other, dated July 22, 1997.

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Aircraft

Maker
Ayres Corporation
Model
S2R-T34 · all S2R-T34s 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. The Thrush crop sprayer. This is how the Ayres Corporation S-2 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
T34-232
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-60A · 1050 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A1F6C9 (octal 50373311)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 7, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 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; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 22, 1997
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00196711

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Crop Dusters LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3153 460Th St Bldg N309
Maurice, IA 51036-7510

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

1994-02-09Beech C24R · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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The public federal record on N2256L, 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 Crop Dusters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 7, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; other, dated July 22, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T34-232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2256L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C24R (serial MC456, cancelled February 9, 1994). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2256L: Accident on July 17, 1993 at Chesterfield, MO: 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

CHI93LA265Accident on July 17, 1993 at Chesterfield, MO: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: MC-456

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C24R · operated under 091

the pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data