Air 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-400 · all AT-400s and related versions
- Serial number
- 400-0294
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4227F (octal 51021177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · November 24, 1980
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00843223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoppe Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11LA566 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