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N3021A

Lindstrand Balloons 90A

Valid Texas

N3021A is a Lindstrand Balloons 90A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Terrell, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 2, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Lindstrand Balloons
Model
90A · all 90As and related versions
Serial number
5077
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A3293C (octal 50624474)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 23, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 19, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 2, 1998
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00963676

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hardin John M
Type
Individual
Address
4 Silent Wings Blvd
Terrell, TX 75160-5401

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

1993-12-03Fairchild SA227-DC · exported to Bolivia · Valid registration
1980-02-22Cessna 170B · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3021A, 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 Hardin John M, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 2, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3021A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-DC (serial DC825B, cancelled December 3, 1993); Cessna 170B (serial 25665, cancelled February 22, 1980). 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 N3021A. 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