Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N502PB is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hershey Flying Service INC, a corporation in David City, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 13, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0500
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-15AG · 680 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A642A5 (octal 51441245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 13, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00357201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hershey Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 148
David City, NE 68632-0148
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N502PB, 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 Hershey Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 20, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 13, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N502PB 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]
1 NTSB record under N502PB: Accident on October 20, 2012 at Newton, GA: 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 INC AT-502B · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from power lines while maneuvering, which resulted in a hard forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13CA033 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