Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 77A
N817TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 77A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Denver, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2001 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 28, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
- Model
- COLT 77A · all COLT 77As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2462USA
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AB2509 (octal 52622411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2001
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 28, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00255012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson Joseph R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3551 Maple Wood Dr
Denver, NC 28037-6239 - Co-owners
- Wilson Michael A
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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 N817TC, 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 Wilson Joseph R, a co-owned, certificate issued June 14, 2001, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 28, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2462USA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N817TC 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 N817TC. 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