Semco Balloon CHALLENGER
N88783 is a Semco Balloon CHALLENGER, a balloon with no engine, built in 1973. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Spring Mills, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 1973 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 23, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Semco Balloon
- Model
- CHALLENGER
- Serial number
- SEM106
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3B62 (octal 53035542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 1973
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 23, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00001811
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcclintic Fred
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 294 Bitner Hollow Rd
Spring Mills, PA 16875-7912
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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 N88783, 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 Mcclintic Fred, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 1973, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated January 23, 1975, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SEM106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88783 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 N88783. 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