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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Lindstrand Balloons 60X
N377LX is a Lindstrand Balloons 60X, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Shady Aero LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 18, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 60X · all 60Xs 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 60 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
- 5357
- 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
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A44EDC (octal 51047334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 21, 2024
- 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 · February 18, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00305519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shady Aero LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 901 Shady Ln
Anchorage, KY 40223-2251
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N377LX links to the rest of the register
- Lindstrand Balloons 60 19 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
- Shady Aero LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Anchorage, KY 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,981 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lindstrand Balloons 60 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Lindstrand Balloons 60 9 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N377LX.json.
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The public federal record on N377LX, 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 Shady Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 21, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 18, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5357 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N377LX 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]
1 NTSB record under N377LX: Accident on January 11, 2022 at Louisville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lindstrand Balloons 60X · operated under 091
The pilot applicant’s delayed reaction to the balloon's increased rate of descent, which resulted in impact with a light pole.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data