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N236CE

Avian Balloon FALCON II

Valid Idaho

N236CE is an Avian Balloon FALCON II, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It is registered to Lighter Than Air America INC, a corporation in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 15, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Avian Balloon
Model
FALCON II · all FALCON IIs and related versions
Serial number
4ZX
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
0
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A21F01 (octal 50417401)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 21, 2016
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 15, 2016
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01226011

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lighter Than Air America INC
Type
Corporation
Address
7239 Cascade Dr
Boise, ID 83704

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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 N236CE, 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 Lighter Than Air America INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 21, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 15, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4ZX for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N236CE 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 N236CE. 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