Ayres Corporation S2R-600
N4010H is an Ayres Corporation S2R-600, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Crop Doctor Aviation INC, a corporation in Hill City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 5, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ayres Corporation
- Model
- S2R-600 · all S2R-600s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA 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
- 2527R
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4B2B8 (octal 51131270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- 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 · March 5, 1979
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00540994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crop Doctor Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2125 US Highway 283
Hill City, KS 67642-2844
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4010H links to the rest of the register
- Ayres Corporation S-2 244 registered
- Ayres Corporation 244 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Crop Doctor Aviation INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Hill City, KS 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Hill City Municipal · HLC
- Kansas 5,740 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Ayres Corporation S-2 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Ayres Corporation S-2 128 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Ayres Corporation S-2 182 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4010H, 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 Crop Doctor Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 4, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. 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 2527R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4010H according to the deregistered file. [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 N4010H: Accident on August 7, 1991 at Drayton, ND: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R · operated under 137
MISJUDGED CLEARANCE BY THE PILOT. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT IS OVERCONFIDENCE IN PERSONAL ABILITY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data