Ayres Corporation S-2R
N4002R is an Ayres Corporation S-2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sides Aviation LLC, an LLC in Cambridge, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ayres Corporation
- Model
- S-2R · all S-2Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2478R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A4AF4F (octal 51127517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00330964
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sides Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 72275 Road 410
Cambridge, NE 69022-3606
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4002R, 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 Sides Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 4, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2478R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4002R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-40288, cancelled April 24, 1968). 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 N4002R: Accident on May 25, 2008 at Mcdonald, KS: 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: Ayres S-2R · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the takeoff. Contributing to the accident was the soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08CA156 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