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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 105A
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- COLT 105A
- Serial number
- 2065USA
- 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
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A21CBF (octal 50416277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 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 8, 1992
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00023702
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Carriage LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N235TC links to the rest of the register
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer 43 aircraft on the register
- Air Carriage LLC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- San Marcos, TX 89 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
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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.
Valid registration to Air Carriage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2065USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N235TC 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 N235TC. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data