{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1980-11-24","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-19","city":"BEAMAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"075","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-19","maker":"Air Tractor Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIR TRACTOR INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0390202","mode_s_code":"51021177","mode_s_hex":"A4227F","model":"AT-400","n_number":"N3659N","name":"HOPPE AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Nelson","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-08-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN11LA566","probable_cause":"Failure of the fuel control unit's spool cap bearing for reasons that could not be determined during extensive postaccident examination, and the pilot\u2019s decision to shut the engine down without sufficient altitude and distance to reach the runway.","registration":"N3659N","state":"NE","summary":"Accident on August 11, 2011 at Nelson, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3659N is an Air Tractor Inc AT-400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hoppe Air LLC, an LLC in Beaman, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 24, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hoppe Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 19, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 400-0294 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3659N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1910, cancelled July 14, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N3659N: Accident on August 11, 2011 at Nelson, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"400-0294","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"19489 310TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00843223","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3659N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"506098559"}