Lindstrand Balloons 90A
N40051 is a Lindstrand Balloons 90A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2000 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 15, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 90A · all 90As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5056
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A4AFC2 (octal 51127702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2000
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 15, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00367021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schartner Kay M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- W241S4115 Pine Hollow Ct
Waukesha, WI 53189-7901 - Co-owners
- Walter Kenneth S JR
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40051, 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 Schartner Kay M, a co-owned, certificate issued November 8, 2000, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 15, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40051 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32R-300 (serial 32R7780512, cancelled November 3, 1994). 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]
2 NTSB records under N40051: Accident on June 17, 2002 at Mukwonago, WI: serious injuries. Accident on June 23, 1994 at Seven Springs, PA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lindstrand Balloons 90A · operated under 091
The inadequate weather evaluation by the pilot and high winds.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA169 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-300 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain adequate airspeed and his premature liftoff which resulted in a stall mush and collision with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94LA113 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