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N393KW

Ayres Corporation S2R-T34

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIowa

N393KW is an Ayres Corporation S2R-T34, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hoppe Air LLC, an LLC in Beaman, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 24, 2016.

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Aircraft

Maker
Ayres Corporation
Model
S2R-T34 · all S2R-T34s 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
T34-267
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 · P&W Canada PT6A-42 · 850 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A48EE4 (octal 51107344)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 19, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 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 · August 24, 2016
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00245922

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

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 N393KW links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Beaman, IA 10 aircraft registered in this town
  • Iowa 4,513 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N393KW, 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 Hoppe Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 19, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 2016, 17 years after the 1999 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T34-267 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N393KW 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

2 NTSB records under N393KW: Accident on August 26, 2025 at Beaman, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 14, 1998 at Dewitt, AR: 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 2

CEN25LA406Accident on August 26, 2025 at Beaman, IA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 · operated under 137

The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper glidepath during landing which resulted in a landing short of the runway.

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FTW98LA217Accident on May 14, 1998 at Dewitt, AR: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: T34-212

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres SR2-T34 · operated under 137

The pilot's failure to maintain proper clearance from a fixed obstacle [utility pole] while maneuvering. A factor was pilot fatigue.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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