Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N5044N is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Growers Air Service INC, a corporation in Woodland, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2013 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated July 17, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0452
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A64BBD (octal 51445675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · July 17, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00206711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Growers Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 41167 County Road 27
Woodland, CA 95776-9370
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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 N5044N, 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 Growers Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 19, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated July 17, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0452 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5044N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 4380, cancelled January 25, 1971). 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 N5044N: Accident on July 23, 2016 at Zamora, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 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: Air Tractor INC AT 502B · operated under 137
The failure of both pilots to maintain an adequate visual lookout, which resulted in a midair collision. Also causal was the other pilot's use of two sedating antihistamines and two impairing medication and the effect of sun glare on his visual lookout, which likely led to his inability to successfully see and avoid the other airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR16FA148 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