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N8521Z

Air Tractor Inc AT-502B

Valid Colorado

N8521Z is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Air Care Leasing LLC, an LLC in Lamar, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated June 14, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Air Tractor Inc
Model
AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
Serial number
502B-0693
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SERIES · 500 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2004
Transponder code
ABB159 (octal 52730531)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · June 14, 2004
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00114769

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Care Leasing LLC
Type
LLC
Address
10250 County Road Ss
Lamar, CO 81052-9623

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1992-04-27Lake LA-4-200 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8521Z, 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 Air Care Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated June 14, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-0693 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8521Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lake LA-4-200 (serial 1093, cancelled April 27, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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

2 NTSB records under N8521Z: Accident on August 30, 2007 at Salome, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 12, 1989 at Bellevue, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 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 2

SEA07CA244Accident on August 30, 2007 at Salome, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-502B · operated under 137

The pilot's inadequate compensation for the tailwind condition and failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll/run, which resulted in a ground loop.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA244 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

SEA89FA068Accident on April 12, 1989 at Bellevue, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1093

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lake LA-4-200-EP · operated under 091

LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON AND FAILURE OF THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT (CFI) TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL/SPIN.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA89FA068 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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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