Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 69A
N438TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 69A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ouray, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 21, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- COLT 69A · all COLT 69As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2259USA
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A54282 (octal 51241202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 21, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00244042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Conrad David G
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 1791
Ouray, CO 81427-1791 - Co-owners
- Conrad Mary Susan
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N438TC, 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 Conrad David G, a co-owned, certificate issued May 2, 2005, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 21, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2259USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N438TC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N438TC. 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