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N4018W

Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 120A

Valid Illinois

N4018W is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 120A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Galena On The Fly INC, a corporation in Galena, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 16, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
Model
120A · all 120As and related versions
Serial number
5733
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A4B3DD (octal 51131735)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 27, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 16, 2020
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01320313

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Galena On The Fly INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 6543
Galena, IL 61036-6543

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 2

2012-07-31Lindstrand Balloons 77A · Registration pending, canceled
1994-09-07Piper PA-32-300 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4018W, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Galena On The Fly INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 27, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 16, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5733 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4018W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lindstrand Balloons 77A (serial 5052, cancelled July 31, 2012); Piper PA-32-300 (serial 3240025, cancelled September 7, 1994). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4018W: Accident on October 3, 1993 at Kernville, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX94FA005Accident on October 3, 1993 at Kernville, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 32-40025

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091

the pilot's inadvertent flight into a box canyon and his failure to attain a safe altitude. A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of familiarity with the geographic area.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94FA005 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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