Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 77A
N477LB is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 1, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
- Model
- 77A · all 77As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5320
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A5DC17 (octal 51356027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 1, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00228079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hofheins Mark E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5808 Rio Lama Rd NE
Rio Rancho, NM 87144-6002
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N477LB, 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 Hofheins Mark E, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 1, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5320 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N477LB 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 N477LB: Accident on January 23, 2021 at Rio Rancho, NM: fatal (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arbc INC DBA Lindstrand 77A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain the proper descent rate during the balloon’s approach to landing, which resulted in a hard landing and fatal passenger injury when the passenger fell out of the basket.
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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