Air Tractor AT-802
The largest single-engine agricultural aircraft, with an 800 to 820 US gal hopper ahead of the cockpit and a PT6A turboprop. Flown as a crop sprayer and as a single-engine air tanker, as the Fire Boss also on floats.
Performance
- Cruise speed
- 166 kt
- Never-exceed speed (VNE)
- 197 kt
- Range
- 530 nm
- Rate of climb
- 780 ft/min
Fuel
- Fuel type
- Jet A-1 · Jet A
- Usable fuel
- 757 kg
- Total capacity
- 775 kg
- Wing tanks
- 2 × 385 kg
Turbine fuel is shown as mass, at a typical 0.80 kg/l, the way crews plan it.
Runway
- Usable surfaces
- Grass · Gravel · Asphalt · Concrete
No published runway figures for this type yet.
Cockpit and systems
- Systems
- Constant-speed propeller
Weights and capacity
- Max passengers
- 1
- Minimum crew
- 1
- Cockpit seats
- 2
- Max take-off weight (MTOW)
- 7,257 kg
- Max landing weight
- 7,257 kg
- Empty weight
- 3,062 kg
Licence and training
- Licences that cover it
- PPL(A) · CPL(A)
- Class rating
- SET (land)
- Extra training or endorsements
- Tailwheel · Turbine engine · Variable-pitch propeller
EASA terms. Other authorities name and split ratings differently.
Flight rules and approvals
- Flight rules
- VFR only
- Approvals
- Night VFR
Assumes the usual equipment. The aircraft's own documents decide what it may fly.
Type
- Manufacturer
- Air Tractor
- Category
- Aeroplane
- Engines
- 1× Turboprop
- ICAO type designator
- AT8T
- Wake turbulence category
- M · Medium
- In service since
- 1993
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- 2024
Scale drawing
- Length
- 10.97 m
- Wingspan
- 18.06 m
- Height
- 3.96 m
- Fuselage width
- 1.2 m
- Propeller diameter
- 2.92 m
Drawn to scale from the published length, span and height; finer shapes are approximate.
Size comparison
- Air Tractor AT-802Length 10.97 m
- Pilatus PC-12 NGXLength 14.4 m
All drawn at one scale. The person is 1.8 m tall.
Speeds
- White arc: flaps may be used
- Green arc: normal operating range
- Red line: never exceed
- 79 kt
- 92 kt
- 123 kt
- 197 kt
Typical published values for the named variant, for learning only. Always fly with the aircraft's own flight manual (POH/AFM).
Fly the Air Tractor AT-802 in the simulator
Practise your radio calls with this aircraft type in the AI ATC simulator.
