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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Aero Commander S2R
N8991Q 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 Thrush Heavy LLC, an LLC in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 4, 1972.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 11:55 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- S2R · all S2Rs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Snow S-2 crop sprayer, later the Thrush. This is how the Aero Commander S2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1661R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- AC694D (octal 53064515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 4, 1972
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00001501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thrush Heavy LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7359 Folsom Rd
Billings, MT 59106-2534
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8991Q links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander S2 60 registered
- Aero Commander 709 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Thrush Heavy LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Billings, MT 344 aircraft registered in this town
- Billings Logan International · BIL
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander S2 7 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
- Where N8991Q is now · Last seen yesterday at 11:55 am.
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The public federal record on N8991Q, 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 Thrush Heavy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 10, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 4, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1661R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8991Q 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 N8991Q. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data