{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-20","city":"CANAAN","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-20","maker":"Jordan Christopher Long","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"JORDAN CHRISTOPHER LONG","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05643M8","mode_s_code":"50121174","mode_s_hex":"A0A27C","model":"J2","n_number":"N14XZ","name":"LONG JORDAN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"WELLINGTON","damage":"DEST","date":"1988-07-16","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"SEA88FA131","probable_cause":"","registration":"N14XZ","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on July 16, 1988 at Wellington, NV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N14XZ is a Jordan Christopher Long J2, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canaan, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Long Jordan, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JL04 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N14XZ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Applebay Sailplanes ZUNI (serial 14, cancelled July 30, 2012). 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 N14XZ: Accident on July 16, 1988 at Wellington, NV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"JL04","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"41 MOSES MEAD RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01524114","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N14XZ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"060182209"}