Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N5046F 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 Mulder Air INC, a corporation in Renville, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated January 7, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0455
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A64BFC (octal 51445774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · January 7, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00996981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mulder Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 23676 870Th Ave
Renville, MN 56284-2308
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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 N5046F, 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 Mulder Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 6, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated January 7, 1998, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0455 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5046F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild Hiller FH-1100 (serial 192, cancelled May 20, 1993). 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 N5046F: Accident on December 12, 1992 at Forney, TX: fatal, destroyed (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: Hiller FH-1100 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE HELICOPTER AS A RESULT OF HIS PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT DUE TO ALCOHOL. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE DARK NIGHT AND THE PILOT'S LIKELY DIVERSION OF HIS ATTENTION FROM OPERATING THE HELICOPTER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93FA051 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