Ayres Corporation S-2R
N5686X is an Ayres Corporation S-2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Chestertown, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 15, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ayres Corporation
- Model
- S-2R · all S-2Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2395R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A747E2 (octal 51643742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · December 15, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00800426
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Wayne M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10314 Augustine Herman Hwy
Chestertown, MD 21620-3236
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5686X, 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 Wright Wayne M, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 15, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2395R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5686X 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 N5686X: Accident on May 31, 2004 at Beaver, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 6, 1996 at Aberdeen, ID: serious 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres Corporation S-2R · operated under 137
the in-flight failure of the engine's P3 tube which resulted in the loss of engine power and the subsequent impact with terrain during a forced landing. Contributing factors include the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing and the fence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN04LA083 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R · operated under 091
pilot's improper planning/decision, and subsequent incapacitation, which resulted in a loss of aircraft control and collision with the terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: pilot fatigued from a long-distance drive with minimal rest, physical impairment of the pilot due to low hydration, his lack of recent experience in abrupt/high-G maneuvering, pilot anxiety/apprehension, the resultant motion sickness of the pilot, and his improper decision to continue flight after experiencing a physiological disturbance, all of which led to vasovagal syncope.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA113 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