{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2023-05-17","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-08-29","city":"LARNED","country_code":"US","county_code":"145","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51800","engine_horsepower":867,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-140AG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-29","maker":"Air Tractor Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIR TRACTOR INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0390306","mode_s_code":"51441360","mode_s_hex":"A642F0","model":"AT-502A","n_number":"N502SB","name":"GROSS FLYING SERVICE INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BLAIN","damage":"DEST","date":"1994-09-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC94FA166","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S IMPAIRMENT OF JUDGMENT AND PERFORMANCE DUE TO DRUGS, FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE, AND EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRPLANE, WHICH RESULTED IN AN IN-FLIGHT BREAKUP OF THE AIRPLANE.  A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO FATIGUE.","registration":"N502SB","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on September 3, 1994 at Blain, PA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N502SB is an Air Tractor Inc AT-502A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Gross Flying Service INC, a corporation in Larned, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 17, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gross Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated May 17, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502A-3428 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N502SB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper AEROSTAR 601P (serial 61P-0502-207, cancelled July 23, 2015); Cessna 310R (serial 310R0244, cancelled February 6, 1995). 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 N502SB: Accident on September 3, 1994 at Blain, PA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"502A-3428","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 393","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01388737","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N502SB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"675500393"}