Dakota Air Spray

Certificate type not established

Data confidence: Records are linked by certificate number, aircraft registration, or a name match that a reviewer has confirmed. Each record below shows how it was linked.

Also recorded as: Dakota Air Spray

Accident & enforcement record

Events that happened, regardless of the operator's own reporting. Each links to its public source.

NTSB accidents & incidents

Accident · 2025-06-19 Operator named in NTSB report
PIPER PA-36-375 (N6174A) No injuries Part 137

Operated by DAKOTA AIR SPRAY LLC (per NTSB report)

The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during a low-level aerial application, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and loss of airplane control at too low of an altitude to recover.

Source: NTSB case CEN25LA218
Accident · 2023-08-15 Operator named in NTSB report
AIR TRACTOR INC AT-502 (N9082C) No injuries Part 137

Operated by Dakota Air Spray (per NTSB report)

The pilot’s hard landing on a road and subsequent loss of control, resulting in the airplane impacting a ditch.

Source: NTSB case CEN23LA377
Accident · 2005-07-05 Operator named in NTSB report
Rockwell S-2R (N3211R) Fatal injury Part 137

Operated by DAKOTA AIR SPRAY INC (per NTSB report)

The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the static lines between the transmission towers. A factor associated with the accident were the static lines.

Source: NTSB case CHI05LA164

FAA enforcement actions

No FAA enforcement actions linked to this operator.

Maintenance disclosure history

No maintenance difficulty reports on file. Note: SDR filing is largely voluntary, so absence is not evidence of a clean maintenance history.

Linked aircraft

N-numberMake / modelYearStatusLink basis
N3211RROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL S-2R1978Valid RegistrationOperator named in NTSB report
N6174APIPER PA-36-375Valid RegistrationOperator named in NTSB report
N9082CAIR TRACTOR INC AT-5021992Valid RegistrationOperator named in NTSB report

Aircraft with earlier records under this certificate

Maintenance and accident records on this page also cover aircraft that are not in this operator's current FAA fleet list. Charter and management fleets change — owners switch management companies, sell, or export aircraft. Where the registry shows what became of a tail, it is noted below.

1 aircraft filed records under this certificate within the last two years but are not in the fleet list we hold — fleet lists can lag actual operations.

  • N9082C (AIR TRACTOR INC AT-502) — records 2023 · registered to DAKOTA AIR SPRAY LLC (owner ≠ operator)
  • N3211R (ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL S-2R) — records 2005 · registered to JOHNSON AIRSPRAY INC (owner ≠ operator)