Air Tractor Inc AT-400
N73080 is an Air Tractor Inc AT-400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1985. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tall Towers Aviation INC, a corporation in Page, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 19, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-400 · all AT-400s and related versions
- Serial number
- 400-0639
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A9CE94 (octal 52347224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · December 19, 1985
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00941697
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tall Towers Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14269 17Th St SE
Page, ND 58064-9780
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N73080, 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 Tall Towers Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 26, 2006, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated December 19, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 400-0639 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73080 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 10296, cancelled November 17, 1950). 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]
2 NTSB records under N73080: Accident on October 19, 1998 at Aztec, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 21, 1996 at Sylvester, GA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-400 · operated under 137
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection of the airplane. Factors were the unsecured oil dipstick, the loss of engine oil pressure necessitating a precautionary landing on unsuitable terrain, and the collision with the tree.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN99TA013 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor 400 · operated under 137
Was the pilots intentional disregard for operating the engine contrary to the flight manuals for intentionally exceeding the maximum engine temperature, resulting in creep failure of one of the compressor turbine blades.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA012 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
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