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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69X
N690W is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69X, a balloon with no engine, built in 2015. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Bloomington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 4, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
- Model
- 69X · all 69Xs 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 Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69 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
- 5590
- 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
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A92CAA (octal 52226252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · August 4, 2015
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01185282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Oliver William M
- 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
- 2600 W Delap Rd
Bloomington, IN 47404-9516
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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 N690W links to the rest of the register
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69 17 registered
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bloomington, IN 99 aircraft registered in this town
- Monroe County · BMG
- Lake Monroe Seaplane Base · 07I
- Indiana 5,694 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N690W, 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 Oliver William M, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 4, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5590 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N690W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Parish W C PARISH GLIDER (serial 3, cancelled April 19, 1933). 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 N690W. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data