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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Lindstrand Balloons 35A
N65868 is a Lindstrand Balloons 35A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 1, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 35A · all 35As and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Lindstrand Balloons 35 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1043
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A8ADBD (octal 52126675)
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, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 1, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00336049
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gabriel Jason B
- 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
- 4280 Zurich Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-7525
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N65868 links to the rest of the register
- Lindstrand Balloons 35 8 registered
- Lindstrand Balloons 252 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Colorado Springs, CO 555 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,486 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N65868.json.
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The public federal record on N65868, 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 Gabriel Jason B, an individual, certificate issued June 10, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated May 1, 2007, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65868 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 75-4331, cancelled July 2, 1984). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N65868. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data