{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1983-05-24","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-12-12","city":"DOYLESTOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"169","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":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-07","maker":"Avian Balloon","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AVIAN BALLOON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0900102","mode_s_code":"50146522","mode_s_hex":"A0CD52","model":"FALCON II","n_number":"N15053","name":"ROTE SHANNON R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Middletown","damage":"MINR","date":"2004-07-24","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC04CA177","probable_cause":"The passenger's inadvertent fall from the basket, during landing.  A factor in this accident was the windy conditions.","registration":"N15053","state":"OH","summary":"Accident on July 24, 2004 at Middletown, OH: serious injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N15053 is an Avian Balloon FALCON II, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Doylestown, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 24, 1983.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rote Shannon R, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development, dated May 24, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N15053 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper E-2 (serial 204, cancelled February 1, 1951); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287225571, cancelled date not given). 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 N15053: Accident on July 24, 2004 at Middletown, OH: serious injuries, minor 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":0,"serial_number":"108","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"17813 EDWARDS RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00392812","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N15053","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"442309303"}