Air Tractor Inc AT-402
N45553 is an Air Tractor Inc AT-402, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Racer Aviation LLC, an LLC in Moorestown, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 8, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-402 · all AT-402s and related versions
- Serial number
- 402-0818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A587D2 (octal 51303722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 8, 1991
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00445441
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Racer Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 52 E Central Ave
Moorestown, NJ 08057-2559
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N45553, 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 Racer Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 7, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 8, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402-0818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45553 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Silvaire LUSCOMBE 8A (serial 2080, cancelled date not given). 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 N45553: Accident on May 24, 2004 at Beedeville, AR: 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: Air Tractor AT-402 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during landing roll-out. Contributing factors were the crosswind and condition of the the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW04CA139 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