Air Tractor Inc AT-502B
N879JA is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wallace Flying Service INC, a corporation in Atmore, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated January 24, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-502B · all AT-502Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 502B-2879
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-34AG · 750 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- AC188E (octal 53014216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest · January 24, 2013
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01114214
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wallace Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1001 Mccullough Rd
Atmore, AL 36502-0815
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N879JA, 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 Wallace Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 19, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated January 24, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502B-2879 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N879JA 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]
2 NTSB records under N879JA: Accident on June 16, 2020 at Atmore, AL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on May 10, 2015 at Dighton, KS: no 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 AT502 · operated under 137
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack while maneuvering at low altitude, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall, spin, and loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA20LA217 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor INC AT 502B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to follow the Preflight checklist and his inadequate preflight inspection, during which he failed to detect the water contamination of the fuel, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power during initial climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN15LA226 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