Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N8516K is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Flatland Aviation LLC, an LLC in Indianola, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated June 26, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-0669
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- ABAE43 (octal 52727103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · June 26, 2003
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00055149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flatland Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 642
Indianola, MS 38751-0642
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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
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The public federal record on N8516K, 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 Flatland Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 12, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated June 26, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0669 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8516K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA (serial 0423, cancelled April 20, 1995). 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 N8516K: Accident on April 19, 2011 at New Madrid, MO: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT-502B · operated under 137
The failure of both pilots to see and avoid the other airplane, which resulted in a midair collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11LA296 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