{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-06-22","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-08-25","city":"JACKSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"039","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Cameron Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880214","mode_s_code":"50055320","mode_s_hex":"A05AD0","model":"A-315","n_number":"N12171","name":"WYOMING BALLOON CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Jackson","damage":"SUBS","date":"2020-08-03","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR20CA267","probable_cause":"The balloon pilot\u2019s inability to maintain the proper descent rate during the balloon\u2019s approach to landing during un-forecasted weather, which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N12171","state":"WY","summary":"Accident on August 3, 2020 at Jackson, WY: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N12171 is a Cameron Balloons A-315, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Wyoming Balloon CO, a corporation in Jackson, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wyoming Balloon CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 22, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6453 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N12171 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 340 (serial 144, cancelled March 6, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N12171: Accident on August 3, 2020 at Jackson, WY: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":12,"serial_number":"6453","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 2578","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00250649","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N12171","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"830012578"}