{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2015-01-27","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-09-25","city":"RIO RANCHO","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","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":"2030-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-25","maker":"Thunder & Colt Balloons Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THUNDER & COLT BALLOONS LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8970114","mode_s_code":"50073427","mode_s_hex":"A07717","model":"240A","n_number":"N129WB","name":"FOUR CORNERS BALLOON RIDES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N129WB is a Thunder & Colt Balloons Ltd 240A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Four Corners Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 27, 2015.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Four Corners Balloon Rides LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 27, 2015, 22 years after the 1993 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2426 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N129WB 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 N129WB. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":12,"serial_number":"2426","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5024 COYOTE WAY NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01160679","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N129WB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"871440862"}