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N331BF

Ayres Corporation S2R-G6

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N331BF is an Ayres Corporation S2R-G6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Saint John, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 9, 1992.

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Aircraft

Maker
Ayres Corporation
Model
S2R-G6 · all S2R-G6s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Thrush crop sprayer. This is how the Ayres Corporation S-2 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
G6-102
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
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Airesearch TPE331-5&6SER · 776 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
1
Year built
1992
Transponder code
A399A5 (octal 50714645)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 9, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 9, 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 · March 9, 1992
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00533762

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcguire Rob
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
17802 Pine City Malden Rd
Saint John, WA 99171-9625
Co-owners
Mcguire Shantyl

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.

Connections how N331BF links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Saint John, WA 8 aircraft registered in this town
  • Washington 10,633 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N331BF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mcguire Rob, a co-owned, certificate issued December 9, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 9, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial G6-102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N331BF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N331BF: Accident on July 28, 2011 at Forest City, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CEN11CA545Accident on July 28, 2011 at Forest City, IA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres Corporation S2R-G6 · operated under 137

The pilot's inadequate visual lookout during an aerial application run, which resulted in an in-flight collision with a windmill.

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data