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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Lindstrand Balloons 69A
N6969G is a Lindstrand Balloons 69A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 17, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 69A · all 69As 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 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
- 5107
- 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
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A9449A (octal 52242232)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 17, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00325692
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Good John R
- 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
- 11811 Wentling Ave
Baton Rouge, LA 70816-6055
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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 N6969G links to the rest of the register
- Lindstrand Balloons 69 15 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
- Baton Rouge, LA 226 aircraft registered in this town
- Baton Rouge Metro, Ryan Field · BTR
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lindstrand Balloons 69 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Lindstrand Balloons 69 8 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N6969G, 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 Good John R, an individual, certificate issued August 3, 1999, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 17, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6969G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15072469, cancelled December 24, 1974). 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 N6969G. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data