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    Airframe Family: Air Tractor AT-300/400/500/600/800
    Latest Model:AT-400A
    Construction Number:301-0471
    Last Civil Registration:N3159D
    Compressed ID:Air Tractor AT-400A cn 301-0471 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    1982

    Constructed as an AT-301.

    To Rustiess Flying Service with new c/r N3159D.

    2013

    Converted to an AT-400A.
    The AT-301 airplane, owned by veteran ag pilot Rusty Lindeman, the movies hero, a crop duster named Dusty. form of a turbine engine conversion to an Air Tractor model AT-400A, along with a fresh new paint scheme so that it now resembles undergone a star makeover in.

    2 June 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At 2013 Air Show at Region of Waterloo International Airport (YKF)

    29 July 2013


    Photographer: Massey Aerodrome FlickR
    Notes: At 2013 Oshkosh

    31 July 2021

    To National Air and Space Museum.
    Donated to the National Air and Space Museum. Source: NASM press release.

    Based at Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    21 August 2021

    Placed on display at the Innovations in Flight fly-in, in the Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum.

    15 February 2022


    Photographer: Mark Avino
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