Air Tractor Inc AT-502A
N256MS is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Buck N Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued July 25, 2025). It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated April 13, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502A · all AT-502As and related versions
- Serial number
- 502A-3281
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140AG · 867 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A26EEC (octal 50467354)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · April 13, 2021
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01337531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buck N Aviation INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 8940 Random Rd
Fort Worth, TX 76179-2740
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.
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The public federal record on N256MS, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated April 13, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502A-3281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N256MS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N256MS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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