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N517LB

Lindstrand Balloons 105A

Valid Florida

N517LB is a Lindstrand Balloons 105A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to American Balloons LLC, an LLC in Land O Lakes, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 10, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Lindstrand Balloons
Model
105A · all 105As and related versions
Serial number
5032
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A67C6C (octal 51476154)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 5, 2016
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 10, 1997
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00236651

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
American Balloons LLC
Type
LLC
Address
22933 Bradenwood Ct
Land O Lakes, FL 34639-6920

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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 N517LB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to American Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 5, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 10, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N517LB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N517LB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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