{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1991-01-14","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-11-23","city":"MERIDIAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"075","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":"2030-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-11-27","maker":"Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THUNDER & COLT AIRBORNE AMER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2301214","mode_s_code":"50065650","mode_s_hex":"A06BA8","model":"AX8-90 S 2","n_number":"N126TC","name":"EAKES BENJAMIN V","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N126TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX8-90 S 2, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Meridian, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 14, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Eakes Benjamin V, an individual, certificate issued November 23, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 14, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1880USA for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N126TC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N126TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"1880USA","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8763 ERNEST WHITE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00365221","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N126TC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1991,"zip":"393059102"}