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Air Tractor Inc AT-802A
N779DA is an Air Tractor Inc AT-802A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aero Spray INC DBA, a non-citizen corporation in Appleton, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated December 13, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-802A · all AT-802As 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 and fire bomber: welded steel-tube fuselage under aluminium skins. This is how the Air Tractor Inc AT-802 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
- 802A-0779
- 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 Canada PT6A-67F · 1796 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AA8AC2 (octal 52505302)
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 14, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 14, 2026
- 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 · December 13, 2018
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01286140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aero Spray INC DBA
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 50 W Sorenson Ave
Appleton, MN 56208-2501 - Co-owners
- Dauntless Air
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N779DA links to the rest of the register
- Air Tractor Inc AT-802 687 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 Canada PT6A-67F 91 aircraft with this engine series · 1796 hp
- Aero Spray INC DBA 22 aircraft in the fleet
- Appleton, MN 39 aircraft registered in this town
- Appleton Municipal · AQP
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Air Tractor Inc AT-802 27 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Air Tractor Inc AT-802 271 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Air Tractor Inc AT-802 88 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67F 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67F 4 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N779DA, 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 Aero Spray INC DBA, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued September 14, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated December 13, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 802A-0779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N779DA 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]
1 NTSB record under N779DA: Accident on June 1, 2020 at Unalakleet, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT802 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain terrain clearance during the departure, which resulted in a collision with terrain..
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data