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A Air Tractor Inc AT-602, the same model family as N50738
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N50738

Air Tractor Inc AT-602

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois
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N50738 is an Air Tractor Inc AT-602, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Farm Air INC, a corporation in Astoria, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage, dated August 7, 2001.

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Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-602 · all AT-602s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A crop sprayer: welded steel-tube fuselage under aluminium skins, aluminium wings. This is how the Air Tractor Inc AT-602 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
602-0448
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-66 SER · 850 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
2
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A656D3 (octal 51453323)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 5, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 5, 2025
Airworthiness
Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storageFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 7, 2001
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00846841

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Farm Air INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
11220 e Bricker Hwy
Astoria, IL 61501-8882

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

1992-11-17Cessna 150J · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1955-10-11Boeing D75N1 · Valid registration

Connections how N50738 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Farm Air INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 11, 2027
Place
  • Astoria, IL 12 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,067 aircraft registered
Record
Airworthiness
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The public federal record on N50738, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Farm Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 5, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 7, 2001, 4 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 602-0448 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N50738 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069520, cancelled November 17, 1992); Boeing D75N1 (serial 75-3943, cancelled October 11, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N50738: Accident on April 25, 1991 at Kure Beach, NC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on January 12, 1988 at Carolina Beach, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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NTSB records 2

ATL91LA088Accident on April 25, 1991 at Kure Beach, NC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 15069520

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150J · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S POOR JUDGEMENT, WHILE IMPAIRED BY ALCOHOL, AND HIS MISJUDGEMENT OF ALTITUDE/CLEARANCE ABOVE THE WATER AFTER INITIATING A LOW PASS.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

ATL88LA075Accident on January 12, 1988 at Carolina Beach, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 15069520

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data