Blair John C PATM 56
N31489 is a Blair John C PATM 56, a balloon with no engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bridgeton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 1982 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 10, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Blair John C
- Model
- PATM 56
- Serial number
- 5
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A3593F (octal 50654477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 1982
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 10, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00871543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blair John C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 36 Lake Street
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
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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 N31489, 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 Blair John C, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 1982, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 10, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N31489 according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N31489. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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