Air Tractor Inc AT-401B
N5081W is an Air Tractor Inc AT-401B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Barts Flying Service INC, a corporation in Storm Lake, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated October 2, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-401B · all AT-401Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 401B-1013
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A65A38 (octal 51455070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · October 2, 1996
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00006231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barts Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 173 Scott St
Storm Lake, IA 50588-7712
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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 2
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The public federal record on N5081W, 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 Barts Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 16, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated October 2, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401B-1013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5081W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna P210N (serial P21000634, cancelled January 6, 1994); Piper PA-28 (serial 28-90, cancelled April 2, 1964). 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 N5081W: Accident on September 1, 2021 at Storm Lake, IA: 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 INC AT-401B · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed during a landing approach with a tailwind that resulted in a landing overrun and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA393 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