Aero Commander S2R
N8978Q is an Aero Commander S2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Johnson Airspray INC, a corporation in Argyle, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 10, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- S2R · all S2Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1648R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- AC62D4 (octal 53061324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 10, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00611541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Airspray INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 276
Argyle, MN 56713-0276
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8978Q, 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 Johnson Airspray INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 23, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 10, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1648R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8978Q 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8978Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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