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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69X
N80072 is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69X, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to A R B C INC DBA, a corporation in Galena, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
- Model
- 69X · all 69Xs 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 69 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
- 5843
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAE545 (octal 52562505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificateFAA registration status code M (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01569826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- A R B C INC DBA
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11440 Dandar St
Galena, IL 61036-8102 - Co-owners
- Lindstrand Balloons USA
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 1
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N80072 links to the rest of the register
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69 17 registered
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- A R B C INC DBA 23 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to June 14, 2027
- Galena, IL 44 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,061 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N80072, 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 A R B C INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5843 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80072 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bell 412EP (serial 36413, cancelled December 29, 2006); Cessna 172M (serial 17266350, cancelled August 30, 1982); Culver V (serial V-113, cancelled March 21, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 20, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N80072. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data