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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Air Tractor Inc AT-400
N3659N is an Air Tractor Inc AT-400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hoppe Air LLC, an LLC in Beaman, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 24, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-400 · all AT-400s 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-400 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
- 400-0294
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4227F (octal 51021177)
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 19, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 19, 2025
- 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 · November 24, 1980
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00843223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoppe Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19489 310Th St
Beaman, IA 50609-8559
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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 N3659N links to the rest of the register
- Air Tractor Inc AT-400 49 registered
- Air Tractor Inc 1,812 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hoppe Air LLC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Beaman, IA 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa 4,513 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Air Tractor Inc AT-400 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Air Tractor Inc AT-400 9 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Air Tractor Inc AT-400 69 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N3659N, 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 Hoppe Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 19, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. 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 400-0294 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3659N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1910, cancelled July 14, 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 N3659N: Accident on August 11, 2011 at Nelson, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT-400 · operated under 137
Failure of the fuel control unit's spool cap bearing for reasons that could not be determined during extensive postaccident examination, and the pilot’s decision to shut the engine down without sufficient altitude and distance to reach the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data