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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Air Tractor Inc AT-501
N501BR is an Air Tractor Inc AT-501, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. 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 25, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 20, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-501
- Serial number
- 501-0123
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A63DD0 (octal 51436720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · December 20, 1990
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00555151
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
- PO Box 276
Argyle, MN 56713-0276
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N501BR links to the rest of the register
- Air Tractor Inc 1,812 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Type certificate A17SW · held by Air Tractor INC
- Johnson Airspray INC 22 aircraft in the fleet
- Argyle, MN 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,968 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cylinder, cracked · 1995-12-05
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N501BR.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N501BR, 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 25, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 501-0123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N501BR 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N501BR. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data