Thunder & Colt AS 105
N81683 is a Thunder & Colt AS 105, an airship with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Aeronautical Adventures INC, a corporation in Eagle, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 17, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt
- Model
- AS 105
- Serial number
- 490
- Type
- Blimp or dirigible
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Honda CX500 · 60 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- AB2332 (octal 52621462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 17, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00414812
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aeronautical Adventures INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1756
Eagle, ID 83616-9106
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.
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The public federal record on N81683, 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 Aeronautical Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2003, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 17, 2003, 20 years after the 1983 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81683 according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N81683. 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 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