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N80072

Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 69X

Valid (manufacturer) Illinois

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
Model
69X · all 69Xs and related versions
Serial number
5843
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AAE545 (octal 52562505)

Registration

Status
Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 27, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01569826

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
A R B C INC DBA
Type
Corporation
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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 3

2006-12-29Bell 412EP · exported to India · Valid registration
1982-08-30Cessna 172M · Valid registration
1949-03-21Culver V · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to A R B C INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5843 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N80072. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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