Air Tractor Inc AT-301
N5017S is an Air Tractor Inc AT-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Biggsville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-301 · all AT-301s and related versions
- Serial number
- 301-0106
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A64105 (octal 51440405)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00260965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Defenbaugh Matthew J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1412 Township Rd 2000 E
Biggsville, IL 61418
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5017S, 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 Defenbaugh Matthew J, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 301-0106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5017S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-35749, cancelled August 27, 1970). 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 N5017S: Accident on July 27, 1988 at Lamar, MO: 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-301 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC88LA138 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