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N5128N

Air Tractor Inc AT-402A

N5128N is an Air Tractor Inc AT-402A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Basin Aviation INC, a corporation in Rio Oso, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 9, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-402A · all AT-402As and related versions
Serial number
402A-1054
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A66C5A (octal 51466132)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
September 25, 2025
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · February 9, 1998
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00647051

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Basin Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 154
Rio Oso, CA 95674-0154

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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

1993-11-23Bell 206L-3 · exported to Malaysia · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5128N, 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 Basin Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 9, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402A-1054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5128N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206L-3 (serial 51601, cancelled November 23, 1993). 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

1 NTSB record under N5128N: Accident on May 19, 2018 at Nicolaus, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

GAA18CA309Accident on May 19, 2018 at Nicolaus, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT 402 · operated under 137

The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate clearance from a power transmission wire.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA309 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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