Air Tractor Inc AT-802A
N9078G is an Air Tractor Inc AT-802A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to A W Peterson INC, a corporation in Warren, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 9, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Tractor Inc
- Model
- AT-802A · all AT-802As and related versions
- Serial number
- 802A-0015
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-65AG · 1300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AC8CA4 (octal 53106244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 9, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00015372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- A W Peterson INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 31454 State Highway 1 NW
Warren, MN 56762-9433
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
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The public federal record on N9078G, 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 A W Peterson INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 29, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 9, 2007, 12 years after the 1995 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 802A-0015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9078G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182N (serial 18260618, cancelled March 11, 2005). 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 N9078G: Accident on August 10, 2008 at Turton, SD: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Air Tractor AT-802A · operated under 137
The failure of the starter generator which resulted in the subsequent loss of engine power. Contributing to the accident were the low altitude at which the airplane was operating, the tall grass, and the ditch.
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