Lindstrand Balloons 105A
N6004E is a Lindstrand Balloons 105A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in El Paso, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 105A · all 105As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5129
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A7CA28 (octal 51745050)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00193513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smatana Bernard F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5146 Sterling Pl
El Paso, TX 79932-2516
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6004E, 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 Smatana Bernard F, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6004E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 76 (serial ME127, cancelled October 1, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6004E: Accident on June 28, 1994 at Elizabeth, PA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 76 · operated under 091
1) THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND (CFI) TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF THE DUAL STUDENT DURING A SIMULATED SINGLE-ENGINE APPROACH, AND 2) HIS FAILURE TO PERFORM REMEDIAL ACTION. THIS LED TO A LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE GROUND. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE DUAL STUDENT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM CONTROLLABLE AIRSPEED AND A PROPER GLIDEPATH TO THE RUNWAY DURING THE APPROACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94FA120 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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