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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Lindstrand Balloons 77A
N30228 is a Lindstrand Balloons 77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Queensbury, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2008 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 20, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 77A · all 77As and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Lindstrand Balloons 77 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5083
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A3297F (octal 50624577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2008
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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 · November 20, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00383806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Donahue Mark A
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10 Aspen Rdg
Queensbury, NY 12804-5922 - Co-owners
- Schwerman Joseph J
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 3
Connections how N30228 links to the rest of the register
- Lindstrand Balloons 77 53 registered
- Lindstrand Balloons 252 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Queensbury, NY 50 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lindstrand Balloons 77 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Lindstrand Balloons 77 15 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N30228, 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 Donahue Mark A, a co-owned, certificate issued October 1, 2008, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 20, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30228 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-CC (serial CC843B, cancelled October 13, 1994); Cessna 177 (serial 17701134, cancelled July 20, 1990); Piper J3L-65 (serial 4708, cancelled August 9, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N30228: Accident on October 24, 1989 at So Lake Tahoe, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S DECISION TO CONTINUE VFR FLIGHT AFTER ENCOUNTERING INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data