Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N5048S 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 Bob Ruhe AG Service LLC, an LLC in Leipsic, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 27, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0495
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A64C4D (octal 51446115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · March 27, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00457141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bob Ruhe AG Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5450 State Route 109
Leipsic, OH 45856-9438
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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 N5048S, 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 Bob Ruhe AG Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 4, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0495 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5048S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R35815, cancelled September 21, 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 N5048S: Accident on August 4, 2023 at Leipsic, OH: 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 AT502 · operated under 137
The incorrect assembly of the turbine engine’s reduction gear box second-stage ring gear, which resulted in an internal failure of multiple engine components and a total loss of power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA327 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