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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 100E
N9012U is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 100E, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Placitas, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 28, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
- Model
- 100E
- Serial number
- 5826
- 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
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AC7594 (octal 53072624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 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 · October 28, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01496642
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Randall Thomas
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 53 Petroglyph Trl
Placitas, NM 87043-9467 - Co-owners
- Randall Ellen
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 3
Connections how N9012U links to the rest of the register
- Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 444 aircraft on the register
- Type certificate B00010CH · held by Lindstrand Balloons USA INC
- Placitas, NM 19 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Compressor, damaged · 1997-07-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Nr 5 Bearing, worn · 1997-06-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, malfunctioned · 1996-07-11
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The public federal record on N9012U, 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 Randall Thomas, a co-owned, certificate issued January 30, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 28, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9012U was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B2298, cancelled January 11, 2012); Nearhoof Charles Jr TURBINE SUPER CUB (serial 3104, cancelled July 16, 2008); Boeing 737-222 (serial 19050, cancelled November 22, 1999). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9012U. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data