Lindstrand 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 77A · all 77As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5083
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A3297F (octal 50624577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2008
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 20, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00383806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Donahue Mark A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10 Aspen Rdg
Queensbury, NY 12804-5922 - Co-owners
- Schwerman Joseph J
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90FA016 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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