Lindstrand Balloons 180A
N40433 is a Lindstrand Balloons 180A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Buckeye, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 9, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 180A
- Serial number
- 5042
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4BE5A (octal 51137132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 9, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00616641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Starr William K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4425 N Sidney St
Buckeye, AZ 85396-7569
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40433, 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 Starr William K, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2004, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 9, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40433 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1639, cancelled October 5, 1994); Martin 404 (serial 14168, cancelled date not given). 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 N40433: Accident on April 5, 1992 at Palm Springs, CA: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R22B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER CRUISE ALTITUDE UPON ENTERING A MOUNTAIN PASS AREA, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE HELICOPTER. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE PILOT'S LOSS OF CONTROL WERE RELATED TO HIS ENCOUNTERING TURBULENCE AND DOWNDRAFTS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA165 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