Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX8-90 S 2
N793TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX8-90 S 2, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingsport, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 30, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- AX8-90 S 2 · all AX8-90 S 2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2414USA
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AAC4D6 (octal 52542326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 1999
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 30, 1994
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00635112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fortney Wayne
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 154 W Wanola Ave
Kingsport, TN 37660-3734
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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 N793TC, 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 Fortney Wayne, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 1999, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 30, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2414USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N793TC 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 N793TC. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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