{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1979-03-09","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-10-14","city":"LAKEVIEW","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01517","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-04-03","maker":"Ayres Corporation","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AYRES CORPORATION","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0970102","mode_s_code":"51127617","mode_s_hex":"A4AF8F","model":"S2R-600","n_number":"N4004K","name":"HERITAGE AG LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Stanwood","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-06-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN24LA318","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s failure to maintain terrain clearance during a low-level aerial application flight, which resulted in impact with terrain and a subsequent forced landing. Contributing to the accident was the location of the spray boom pressure gauge, which required the pilot to divert his attention away from the airplane\u2019s flight path, and the operator\u2019s decision to locate the spray boom pressure gauge outside of the cockpit.","registration":"N4004K","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on June 20, 2024 at Stanwood, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4004K is an Ayres Corporation S2R-600, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Heritage AG LLC, an LLC in Lakeview, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 9, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heritage AG LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 14, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 9, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2488R for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4004K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NAVION (serial NAV-4-1004, cancelled May 21, 1973). 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 N4004K: Accident on June 20, 2024 at Stanwood, MI: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"2488R","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9081 CUTLER RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00350974","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4004K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"488509714"}