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N918PL

Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 56A

N918PL is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 56A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in La Verne, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 23, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand
Model
56A · all 56As and related versions
Serial number
5703
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
ACB5B3 (octal 53132663)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 23, 2019
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · July 23, 2019
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01295339

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cheatham Paul F
Type
Co-owned
Address
1502 Foothill Blvd # 103/351
La Verne, CA 91750-3429
Co-owners
Cheatham Laurie S

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N918PL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cheatham Paul F, a co-owned, certificate issued September 23, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 23, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5703 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N918PL according to the deregistered file. [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 N918PL. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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