Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer 240A
N434TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer 240A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Above It All Balloon CO INC, a corporation in Basalt, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 29, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- 240A
- Serial number
- 2258USA
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A533A6 (octal 51231646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2005
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 29, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00314042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Above It All Balloon CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3048
Basalt, CO 81621-3048
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N434TC, 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 Above It All Balloon CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 10, 2005, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 29, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2258USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N434TC 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 N434TC: Accident on September 27, 1996 at Phoenix, AZ: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Thunder And Colt COLT 240A · operated under 091
The pilot's impairment of judgment and performance due to drugs which led to his misjudgment of his descent rate during landing. Contributing factors were: his failure to activate the deflation device (rip line) and turn off the pilot lights, improper use of burner controls, poor judgment, and the relative high wind condition.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data