Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N502TR is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Port Lavaca, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 1, 1999. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0553
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A64317 (octal 51441427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · February 1, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00643627
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sterling John A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1012 Bauer Rd
Port Lavaca, TX 77979-5100 - Co-owners
- Sterling Alison D
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 1
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The public federal record on N502TR, 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 Sterling John A, a co-owned, certificate issued December 6, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 1, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N502TR according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N502TR. 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 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