{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-07-27","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"LONGVIEW","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-10"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-15","maker":"Ultramagic Sa","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ULTRAMAGIC SA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9230014","mode_s_code":"50071470","mode_s_hex":"A07338","model":"M-56C","n_number":"N128UM","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N128UM is an Ultramagic Sa M-56C, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Longview, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 27, 2011. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 27, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56-47 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N128UM according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N128UM. 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":1,"serial_number":"56-47","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"1100 MCCANN RD #J208","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01073528","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N128UM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"75601"}