Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX7-65S1
N429TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX7-65S1, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marana, Arizona. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 17, 1992. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- AX7-65S1
- Serial number
- 2232USA
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A51EBA (octal 51217272)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 17, 1992
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00184042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12630 N Flintlock Rd
Marana, AZ 85653-8829
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 1
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The public federal record on N429TC, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2232USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N429TC according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N429TC. 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