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A Rockwell International S-2, the same model family as N8424V
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N8424V

Rockwell International S-2R

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N8424V is a Rockwell International S-2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Jones Aviation INC, a corporation in Biggs, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 9, 1976.

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Aircraft

Maker
Rockwell International
Model
S-2R · all S-2Rs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A 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 Rockwell International 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
2184R
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 R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
82 mph
Transponder code
AB8A3F (octal 52705077)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 15, 1998
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 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 · February 9, 1976
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00553051

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jones Aviation INC
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 497
Biggs, CA 95917-0497

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.

Connections how N8424V links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Biggs, CA 51 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,610 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8424V.json.

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The public federal record on N8424V, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Jones Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 15, 1998, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 9, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2184R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8424V according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8424V: Accident on March 8, 2023 at Willows, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR23FA122Accident on March 8, 2023 at Willows, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rockwell International S-2R · operated under 137

The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from powerlines while flying under multiple conductors during a low-altitude aerial application flight, which resulted in propeller contact with a powerline and a subsequent loss of control.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data