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N26480

Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 105A

N26480 is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 105A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Milford, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
Model
105A · all 105As and related versions
Serial number
5551
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2014
Transponder code
A29162 (octal 50510542)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 11, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 11, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 21, 2014
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01139605

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Philkill Steven
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 298
Milford, NJ 08848-0298

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 2

1978-09-01Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration
1948-09-27Meyers OTW · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N26480, 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 Philkill Steven, an individual, certificate issued May 11, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 21, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5551 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N26480 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A (serial AA5A 0620, cancelled September 1, 1978); Meyers OTW (serial 33, cancelled September 27, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N26480. 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