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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026
N83DC

Lindstrand Balloons 105A

PendingFAA registration status code R: Registration pending. All codesSouth Dakota

N83DC is a Lindstrand Balloons 105A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Yale, South Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 1, 2009.

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Aircraft

Maker
Lindstrand Balloons
Model
105A · all 105As and related versions
Built of
fabric and wicker
A hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Lindstrand Balloons 105 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
609
Type
BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AB564F (octal 52653117)

Registration

Status
Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
October 13, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2009
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01032751

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
40777 195Th St
Yale, SD 57386-8212

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 2

2007-03-15Cessna 525 · exported to China Peoples Rep · Valid registration
2001-04-12Piper PA-34-200T · exported to Colombia · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Connections how N83DC links to the rest of the register

Design
Place
  • Yale, SD 4 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Dakota 2,278 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N83DC, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 2009, 10 years after the 1999 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 609 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N83DC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 525 (serial 525-0380, cancelled March 15, 2007); Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-8170058, cancelled April 12, 2001). 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 N83DC. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data