Air Tractor Inc AT-401B
N5028Q is an Air Tractor Inc AT-401B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation in Ulysses, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated June 24, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-401B · all AT-401Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 401B-1028
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A644DD (octal 51442335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2001
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · June 24, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00346671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9170 E Road 2
Ulysses, KS 67880-8151
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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 N5028Q, 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 Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation, certificate issued August 14, 2001, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated June 24, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401B-1028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5028Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 8KCAB (serial 44478, cancelled March 2, 1994). 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 N5028Q: Accident on June 1, 2000 at Thibodaux, LA: serious 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-401B · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the power lines while maneuvering during an aerial application flight. A factor was the sunglare on the windscreen.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW00LA162 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