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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Thunder & Colt Ltd THUNDER AX8-90 S2
N703TC is a Thunder & Colt Ltd THUNDER AX8-90 S2, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lubbock, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. 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
- 2412
- 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
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A9615F (octal 52260537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 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
- 00974402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weston Weldon 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
- 5712 14Th St
Lubbock, TX 79416-5215
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N703TC links to the rest of the register
- Thunder & Colt Ltd 21 aircraft on the register
- Lubbock, TX 272 aircraft registered in this town
- Lubbock Preston Smith International · LBB
- Lubbock Executive Airpark · F82
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N703TC, 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 Weston Weldon R, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2412 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N703TC 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 N703TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data