Air Tractor Inc AT-301
N3159M is an Air Tractor Inc AT-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Red Rdd LLC, an LLC in Powell Butte, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated September 19, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-301 · all AT-301s and related versions
- Serial number
- 301-0468
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Raikhlin RED A03 · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A35D03 (octal 50656403)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · September 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00771573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Rdd LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8266 SW Pokegama Dr
Powell Butte, OR 97753-1529
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3159M, 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 Red Rdd LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 1, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 2025, 43 years after the 1982 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 301-0468 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3159M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2024, cancelled May 19, 1972). 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 N3159M: Accident on June 24, 1999 at Veblen, SD: minor 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 AT-301 · operated under 137
was the pilot not maintaining clearance from terrain. A factor was the pilot not performing a load jettison.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA193 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