Lindstrand Balloons 77A
N80943 is a Lindstrand Balloons 77A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hallsville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 16, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 77A · all 77As and related versions
- Serial number
- 178
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB064C (octal 52603114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 16, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00885322
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hammett Bailey M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 325 W Walnut St
Hallsville, TX 75650-6127
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N80943, 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 Hammett Bailey M, an individual, certificate issued November 15, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80943 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17266811, cancelled June 28, 1991); Dehavilland DHC-3 (serial 229, cancelled June 7, 1972); Globe GC-1B (serial 1136, cancelled May 2, 1951). 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 N80943: Accident on July 10, 1988 at Holland, MI: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
PILOT'S INADEQUATE AIRCRAFT HANDLING DURING THE APPROACH TO LANDING AND LANDING FLARE PHASE OF FLIGHT. THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE AND AVOID A SITUATION FROM WHICH IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE-DUE TO THE WEIGHT OF THE AIRCRAFT, THE AMOUNT OF POWER AVAILABLE FROM THE ENGINE, AND THE PRESENCE OF OBSTACLES IN THE FLIGHT PATH- TO ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED AND RATE OF CLIMB, RESULTED IN THE AIRCRAFT'S STALL/MUSH AND DESCENT INTO A WOODED RESIDENTIAL AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88FA162 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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