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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 65X
N80016 is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 65X, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Savannah, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 15, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
- Model
- 65X · all 65Xs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 65 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5812
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- AAE477 (octal 52562167)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2024
- 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 · August 15, 2024
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01458887
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- James Andrew
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 704 S 13Th Ter
Savannah, MO 64485-1853 - Co-owners
- James Terra
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 1
Connections how N80016 links to the rest of the register
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 65 12 registered
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 444 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Savannah, MO 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,818 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N80016, 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 James Andrew, a co-owned, certificate issued September 16, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 15, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80016 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerotek PITTS S-2A (serial 2026, cancelled December 22, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N80016: Accident on August 20, 1983 at Waukegan, IL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek PITTS S-2A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data