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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Thrush Aircraft Inc S2RHG-T65
N40475 is a Thrush Aircraft Inc S2RHG-T65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ed-Air INC, a corporation in Oaktown, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 18, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thrush Aircraft Inc
- Model
- S2RHG-T65 · all S2RHG-T65s 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: steel-tube fuselage under aluminium skins. This is how the Thrush Aircraft Inc 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
- T65HG-014
- 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 PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A4BEE8 (octal 51137350)
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 22, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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 · May 18, 2005
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00179259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ed-Air 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
- 2253 e Green Airport Rd
Oaktown, IN 47561-8344
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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 2
Connections how N40475 links to the rest of the register
- Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 102 registered
- Thrush Aircraft Inc 102 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 PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Ed-Air INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Oaktown, IN 19 aircraft registered in this town
- Ed-Air Airport · I20
- Indiana 5,700 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 104 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N40475, 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 Ed-Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 22, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 18, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T65HG-014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40475 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Kamov KA-32C (serial 91-01, cancelled July 18, 2001); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305193, cancelled June 15, 1978). 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 N40475: Accident on May 25, 2012 at Alicia, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Thrush Aircraft INC S2RHG-T65 · operated under 137
The pilot of the Thrush did not execute a go-around prior to landing, which resulted in excessive ground speed after touchdown, and his subsequent loss of directional control, which resulted in a collision with the Air Tractor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
