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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Thunder & Colt Ltd THUNDER AX8-90 S2
N786TC is a Thunder & Colt Ltd THUNDER AX8-90 S2, a balloon with no engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 30, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Ltd
- Model
- THUNDER AX8-90 S2
- Serial number
- 2517
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAA87C (octal 52524174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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 · November 30, 1993
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00244592
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kious Thomas
- 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
- 9951 Anaheim Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122-3040
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N786TC links to the rest of the register
- Thunder & Colt Ltd 21 aircraft on the register
- Albuquerque, NM 1,180 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,105 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N786TC, 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 Kious Thomas, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N786TC 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 N786TC. 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 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