Ayres Corporation S2R-T34
N524SL is an Ayres Corporation S2R-T34, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Crop Dusters LLC, an LLC in Maurice, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 7, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ayres Corporation
- Model
- S2R-T34 · all S2R-T34s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Thrush crop sprayer. This is how the Ayres Corporation S-2 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
- T34203DC
- 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-34 · 750 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A69965 (octal 51514545)
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 5, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2023
- 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 controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 1999
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00484732
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crop Dusters LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3153 460Th St Bldg N309
Maurice, IA 51036-7545
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N524SL links to the rest of the register
- Ayres Corporation S-2 244 registered
- Ayres Corporation 244 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-34 42 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Crop Dusters LLC 13 aircraft in the fleet
- Maurice, IA 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Sioux County Regional · SXK
- Iowa 4,506 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Ayres Corporation S-2 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Ayres Corporation S-2 128 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Ayres Corporation S-2 182 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N524SL, 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 Crop Dusters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 5, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1999, 5 years after the 1994 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T34203DC for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N524SL according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N524SL: Accident on July 28, 2025 at Akron, IA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 9, 2015 at Climax, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres Corporation S2R · operated under 137
On July 28, 2025, about 1537 central daylight time, an Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 airplane, N524SL, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Akron, Iowa. The pilot sustained serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 137 agricultural flight. The purpose of the low-level aerial application flight was to apply liquid chemical to a field of corn in a rural area. The airplane departed from the Sioux County Regional Airport (SXK), Maurice, Iowa, about 1456. After the completion of the aerial application work, the intent was…
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres Corporation S2R T34 · operated under 137
A loss of thrust on takeoff for reasons that could not be determined, because postaccident examination of the engine and propeller assembly did not reveal any mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data