{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1998-02-11","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-12","city":"PEARSALL","country_code":"US","county_code":"163","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52118","engine_horsepower":850,"engine_maker":"P&W CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A-66 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-12","maker":"Air Tractor Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIR TRACTOR INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0390309","mode_s_code":"51446100","mode_s_hex":"A64C40","model":"AT-602","n_number":"N5048D","name":"FITCHS FLYING SERVICE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MEAD","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-05-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA91LA107","probable_cause":"CARBURETOR ICE AND THE PILOT NOT USING THE CARBURETOR HEAR.  FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE:  CARBURETOR ICING CONDITIONS, AND THE PILOT DID NOT ADEQUATELY EVALUATE THE WEATHER CONDITIONS.","registration":"N5048D","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on May 17, 1991 at Mead, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5048D is an Air Tractor Inc AT-602, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Fitchs Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Pearsall, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 11, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fitchs Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 12, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated February 11, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 602-0469 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5048D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182A (serial 51148, cancelled February 9, 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 N5048D: Accident on May 17, 1991 at Mead, WA: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"602-0469","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5105 SPUR 581","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00397061","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5048D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":"780616100"}