Ayres Corporation S2R-T34
N444HF is an Ayres Corporation S2R-T34, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Johnson Airspray INC, a corporation in Argyle, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 4, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ayres Corporation
- Model
- S2R-T34 · all S2R-T34s 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
- T36-191
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A55A2E (octal 51255056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2008
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 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 · January 4, 1993
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00304062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Airspray 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
- 38520 320Th Street NW
Box 27
Argyle, MN 56713-0027
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N444HF links to the rest of the register
- Ayres Corporation S-2 243 registered
- Ayres Corporation 243 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 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Johnson Airspray INC 22 aircraft in the fleet
- Argyle, MN 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,968 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
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,209 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N444HF, 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 November 21, 2008, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 4, 1993, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T36-191 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N444HF 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 N444HF: Accident on August 11, 2006 at Parkdale, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R-T34 · operated under 137
The failure of a compressor turbine blade for undetermined reasons, which resulted in a total loss of engine power. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data