Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N5003C is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Crop Air LLC, an LLC in Eaton, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated November 27, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0396
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A63CB4 (octal 51436264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · November 27, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00176351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crop Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 21532 County Road 72
Eaton, CO 80615-9201
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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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5003C, 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 Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 25, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5003C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-70A-18 (serial 701713, cancelled May 24, 1993); Beech B35 (serial D-2265, cancelled October 7, 1970); Bell 206B (serial 2442, 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 N5003C: Accident on August 17, 2009 at Whittemore, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 INC AT-502B · operated under 137
The pilot's lack of preflight planning and remedial action with resulted in the airplane's inability to climb out of ground effect.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA533 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