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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 105A
N209TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 105A, a balloon with no engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Edina, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 16, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- COLT 105A
- Serial number
- 2010USA
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1B51E (octal 50332436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 16, 1991
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00185471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Markert Timothy C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4223 Valley View Rd
Edina, MN 55424-1932
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N209TC links to the rest of the register
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer 43 aircraft on the register
- Edina, MN 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N209TC, 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 Markert Timothy C, an individual, certificate issued May 4, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2010USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N209TC 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 N209TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data