Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand SPHERE-105
N816SM is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand SPHERE-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Skycab Balloon Promotions LLC, an LLC in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 8, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
- Model
- SPHERE-105
- Serial number
- 5196
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AB2142 (octal 52620502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2002
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 8, 2002
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00803946
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skycab Balloon Promotions LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1200 Truman Park Dr
Louisville, KY 40245-4724
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N816SM, 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 Skycab Balloon Promotions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 29, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 8, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N816SM 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 N816SM. 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