Air Tractor Inc AT-400A
N3157B is an Air Tractor Inc AT-400A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Marlow Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lamoni, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 13, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-400A · all AT-400As and related versions
- Serial number
- 400A-0449
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A35CB3 (octal 50656263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 13, 1982
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00741623
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marlow Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 409 E 10Th St
Lamoni, IA 50140-1161
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3157B, 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 Marlow Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 2, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 400A-0449 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3157B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 25399, cancelled February 16, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3157B: Accident on August 3, 2025 at Lamoni, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT-400A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during an aborted takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA303 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
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