Air Tractor Inc AT-502A
N502SB is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Gross Flying Service INC, a corporation in Larned, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 17, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502A · all AT-502As and related versions
- Serial number
- 502A-3428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140AG · 867 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A642F0 (octal 51441360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · May 17, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01388737
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gross Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 393
Larned, KS 67550-0393
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N502SB, 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 Gross Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 17, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502A-3428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N502SB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper AEROSTAR 601P (serial 61P-0502-207, cancelled July 23, 2015); Cessna 310R (serial 310R0244, cancelled February 6, 1995). 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 N502SB: Accident on September 3, 1994 at Blain, PA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 310R · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPAIRMENT OF JUDGMENT AND PERFORMANCE DUE TO DRUGS, FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE, AND EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRPLANE, WHICH RESULTED IN AN IN-FLIGHT BREAKUP OF THE AIRPLANE. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO FATIGUE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC94FA166 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