Lindstrand Balloons 69A
N96LN is a Lindstrand Balloons 69A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Santa Fe Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hutto, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lindstrand Balloons
- Model
- 69A · all 69As and related versions
- Serial number
- 5001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AD5AD4 (octal 53255324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 10, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00575911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Santa Fe Balloons LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1114 Concan Dr
Hutto, TX 78634-5496
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.
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The public federal record on N96LN, 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 Santa Fe Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 15, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96LN 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]
1 NTSB record under N96LN: Accident on July 30, 2010 at Longview, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lindstrand 69A · operated under 091
The the pilot's inadvertent movement of the burner assembly off center resulting in an in-flight fire of the skirt and envelope of the balloon. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's attention being diverted to venting the envelope to avoid an obstacle and lose altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10CA456 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data