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N7172D

Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 105A

Valid Louisiana

N7172D is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 105A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Keithville, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 1, 2011.

Aircraft

Maker
Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
Model
105A · all 105As and related versions
Serial number
5490
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2011
Transponder code
A998B0 (octal 52314260)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 4, 2011
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 1, 2011
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01019486

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Harwell James P
Type
Individual
Address
2563 Barron Rd
Keithville, LA 71047-7333

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2011-05-02Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1970-09-03Piper PA-18A 150 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N7172D, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Harwell James P, an individual, certificate issued August 4, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 1, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7172D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerostar International Inc RXS-8 (serial RXS8-3071, cancelled May 2, 2011); Piper PA-18A 150 (serial 18-5630, cancelled September 3, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N7172D: Accident on August 23, 2019 at Lawton, OK: serious injuries. Accident on April 19, 2003 at Bossier City, LA: serious injuries. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

CEN19TA328Accident on August 23, 2019 at Lawton, OK: serious injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lindstrand 105A · operated under 091

A hard landing, which resulted the basket tipping over and a passenger sustaining a serious injury.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

FTW03LA135Accident on April 19, 2003 at Bossier City, LA: serious injuries.serial on NTSB record: 7172D

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar RX-8 · operated under 091

The failure of the passenger to follow the pilots landing instructions.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data