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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Air Tractor Inc AT-301
N3158Z is an Air Tractor Inc AT-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Weiser, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 5, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-301 · all AT-301s 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-301 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
- 301-0457
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A35CEC (octal 50656354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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 controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 5, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00611573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thompson Frank L
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 824 Olds Ferry Rd
Weiser, ID 83672-5012 - Co-owners
- Thompson Karen D
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3158Z links to the rest of the register
- Air Tractor Inc AT-301 83 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
- Weiser, ID 40 aircraft registered in this town
- Weiser Municipal · S87
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Air Tractor Inc AT-301 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Air Tractor Inc AT-301 37 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Air Tractor Inc AT-301 77 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N3158Z, 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 Thompson Frank L, a co-owned, certificate issued March 17, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. 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 301-0457 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3158Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-7105, cancelled November 19, 1965). 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 N3158Z: Accident on November 7, 1989 at Ellinwood, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT301 · operated under 137
THE PARTIAL FAILURE OF THE ENGINE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS WHICH RESULTED IN A FORCED LANDING. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE SOFT DIRT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data