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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Thunder & Colt Ltd THUNDER AX8-90 S2
N61CT is a Thunder & Colt Ltd THUNDER AX8-90 S2, a balloon with no engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Maumelle, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Ltd
- Model
- THUNDER AX8-90 S2
- Serial number
- 2393
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A7ECA9 (octal 51766251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 22, 1993
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00864402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Archer Lisa A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2 Riverland Cv
Maumelle, AR 72113-6539
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N61CT links to the rest of the register
- Thunder & Colt Ltd 21 aircraft on the register
- Maumelle, AR 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Arkansas 3,494 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N61CT.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N61CT, 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 Archer Lisa A, an individual, certificate issued June 10, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2393 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61CT 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 N61CT. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data