Thunder Balloons Ltd AX9-140 SII
N140PS is a Thunder Balloons Ltd AX9-140 SII, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Beaumont, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 18, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder Balloons Ltd
- Model
- AX9-140 SII
- Serial number
- 1470US
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A0A406 (octal 50122006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 18, 1989
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00094981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Durwood D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5455 Ohio St
Beaumont, TX 77705-6211
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N140PS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Johnson Durwood D, an individual, certificate issued January 4, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 18, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1470US for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N140PS according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N140PS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data