Air Tractor Inc AT-502A
N290LA is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ascend AG INC, a corporation in Wall, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 16, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502A · all AT-502As and related versions
- Serial number
- 502A-3137
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140AG · 867 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A2F675 (octal 50573165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · March 16, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01272325
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ascend AG INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 413
Wall, SD 57790-0413
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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 N290LA, 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 Ascend AG INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 4, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 16, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502A-3137 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N290LA 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 N290LA: Accident on June 18, 2023 at Sturgis, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT-502 · operated under 137
The pilot’s improper timing to initiate beta mode with the propeller and his failure to maintain directional during the full load landing that resulted in a runway excursion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s lack of recent experience with performing a full load landing and the high-density altitude that likely affected aircraft performance during the landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA244 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data