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N8003P

Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 160A

N8003P is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 160A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rainbow Ryders INC, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 22, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
Model
160A · all 160As and related versions
Serial number
5751
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2021
Transponder code
AAE4AC (octal 52562254)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 22, 2022
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 22, 2021
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01349252

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rainbow Ryders INC
Type
Corporation
Address
5601 Eagle Rock Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113-1765

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

2015-04-30Piper PA-24-250 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8003P, 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 Rainbow Ryders INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 22, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5751 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8003P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 24-3243, cancelled April 30, 2015). 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

1 NTSB record under N8003P: Accident on December 22, 1993 at Mcintosh, SD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 1

CHI94LA056Accident on December 22, 1993 at Mcintosh, SD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 24-3243

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-250 · operated under 091

was continued VFR flight into IMC and the failure to maintain clearance with the terrain. Factors associated with this accident were an inaccurate weather evaluation by the pilot, snow and the rising terrain.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA056 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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