Air Tractor Inc AT-301
N8864S is an Air Tractor Inc AT-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Crop Doctor Aviation INC, a corporation in Hill City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 4, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-301 · all AT-301s and related versions
- Serial number
- 302-0218
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Orenda OE600A · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3714 (octal 53033424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 4, 2012
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00821831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crop Doctor Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2125 US Highway 283
Hill City, KS 67642-2844
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8864S, 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 Crop Doctor Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 24, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 2012, 33 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 302-0218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8864S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15062164, cancelled date not given). 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 N8864S: Accident on February 11, 1987 at Colony, OK: 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 AT-302 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data