American Blimp Corp A-1-70G
N157LG is an American Blimp Corp A-1-70G, an airship with a piston engine. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Skyship Services INC, a corporation in Windermere, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Blimp Corp
- Model
- A-1-70G · all A-1-70Gs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. An airship: a fabric envelope filled with helium, with a gondola slung beneath. This is how the American Blimp Corp A-1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 107
- Type
- Blimp or dirigibleFAA type of aircraft code 3 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0E531 (octal 50162461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00243696
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skyship Services INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 13506 Summerport Village Pkwy
Ste 1018
Windermere, FL 34786
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N157LG links to the rest of the register
- American Blimp Corp A-1 5 registered
- American Blimp Corp 13 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Skyship Services INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Windermere, FL 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the American Blimp Corp A-1 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the American Blimp Corp A-1 29 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N157LG.json.
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The public federal record on N157LG, 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 Skyship Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N157LG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gillmore Gary/Linda MONI (serial 00157, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N157LG: Accident on July 7, 1984 at Joliet, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gillmore MONI · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data