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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Air 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.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 8:06 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-402A · all AT-402As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA 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-402 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
- 402A-1054
- 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 PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A66C5A (octal 51466132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 14 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 9, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00647051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Basin Aviation 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
- 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
Connections how N5128N links to the rest of the register
- Air Tractor Inc AT-402 160 registered
- Air Tractor Inc 1,811 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Type certificate A17SW · held by Air Tractor INC
- Basin Aviation INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Rio Oso, CA 13 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,761 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Air Tractor Inc AT-402 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Air Tractor Inc AT-402 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Air Tractor Inc AT-402 81 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Where N5128N is now · Last seen October 15 at 8:06 pm.
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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.
Valid registration to Basin Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 9, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402A-1054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N5128N: Accident on May 19, 2018 at Nicolaus, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 402 · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate clearance from a power transmission wire.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data