Colt Balloons Ltd 160A
N976TC is a Colt Balloons Ltd 160A, a balloon with no engine. It has 9 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dixfield, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Colt Balloons Ltd
- Model
- 160A
- Serial number
- 1482US
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD9B9B (octal 53315633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00373568
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Young Derald E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 241 Weld St
Dixfield, ME 04224
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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 N976TC, 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 Young Derald E, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1482US for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N976TC 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 N976TC: Accident on July 20, 2014 at Clinton, MA: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Colt Balloons 160A · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight and inflight planning and improper landing site selection and approach path, which resulted in the balloon contacting powerlines during landing. Contributing to the accident was the Federal Aviation Administration's inadequate oversight of balloon tour operators.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14LA347 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