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N36542

Air Tractor Inc AT-301

Valid Montana

N36542 is an Air Tractor Inc AT-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Harris Spraying INC, a corporation in Circle, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 3, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-301 · all AT-301s and related versions
Serial number
301-0310
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
71 mph
Transponder code
A421DE (octal 51020736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 6, 2011
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · November 3, 1980
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00793203

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Harris Spraying INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 56
Circle, MT 59215-0056

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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

1971-04-04Aeronca 65-LB · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N36542, 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 Harris Spraying INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 3, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 301-0310 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N36542 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 65-LB (serial LB16181, cancelled April 4, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N36542: Accident on August 7, 2022 at Circle, MT: 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

WPR22LA293Accident on August 7, 2022 at Circle, MT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT-301 · operated under 137

The loss of engine power due to carburetor ice. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to use carburetor heat.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA293 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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