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N235TC

Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 105A

Valid Texas

N235TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 105A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Air Carriage LLC, an LLC in San Marcos, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
Model
COLT 105A
Serial number
2065USA
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
6
Year built
1992
Transponder code
A21CBF (octal 50416277)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 14, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 8, 1992
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00023702

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Carriage LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2018 Hearthstone Dr
San Marcos, TX 78666-2278

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N235TC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Carriage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2065USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N235TC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N235TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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