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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Thrush Aircraft Inc S2R-H80
N5538P is a Thrush Aircraft Inc S2R-H80, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aerial Crop Care CO, a corporation in Hebron, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; other, dated July 18, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thrush Aircraft Inc
- Model
- S2R-H80 · all S2R-H80s 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: steel-tube fuselage under aluminium skins. This is how the Thrush Aircraft Inc 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
- H80-197
- 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 · Ge Av H80-100 · 800 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A70E0E (octal 51607016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 26, 2024
- 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; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 18, 2017
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01258113
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerial Crop Care CO
- 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 48
Hebron, ND 58638-0048
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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
Connections how N5538P links to the rest of the register
- Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 102 registered
- Thrush Aircraft Inc 102 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ge Av H80-100 28 aircraft with this engine series · 800 hp
- Aerial Crop Care CO 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Hebron, ND 12 aircraft registered in this town
- North Dakota 2,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Thrush Aircraft Inc S-2 104 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Ge Av H80-100 8 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N5538P, 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 Aerial Crop Care CO, a corporation, certificate issued February 19, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; other, dated July 18, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H80-197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5538P was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284971, cancelled February 5, 1993); Piper PA-24-250 (serial 24-602, cancelled August 14, 1962). 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 N5538P: Accident on July 19, 1990 at Lansing, IL: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
THE INSTRUCTOR'S INABILITY TO CONTROL THE AIRPLANE DURING ITS LANDING ROLL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data