Rockwell International S-2R
N431BL is a Rockwell International S-2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Johnson Airspray INC, a corporation in Argyle, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 23, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rockwell International
- Model
- S-2R · all S-2Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2209R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A526F9 (octal 51223371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 23, 1990
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00684951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Airspray INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 276
Argyle, MN 56713-0276
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.
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The public federal record on N431BL, 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 Johnson Airspray INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 1990, 14 years after the 1976 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2209R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N431BL 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 N431BL: Accident on February 27, 1996 at Winchester, AR: minor 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: Rockwell S-2R · operated under 091
Failure of the engine master rod. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing, due to the proximity of a power line and trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA135 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data