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N768TC

Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 77A

Valid Iowa

N768TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Indianola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
Model
COLT 77A · all COLT 77As and related versions
Serial number
2345
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1993
Transponder code
AA60EC (octal 52460354)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 11, 1993
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00354312

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Edgerton Scott L
Type
Co-owned
Address
1909 W 5Th Ave
Indianola, IA 50125-3020
Co-owners
Edgerton Jill M

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N768TC, 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 Edgerton Scott L, a co-owned, certificate issued June 10, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 11, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2345 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N768TC according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N768TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 August 27, 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