{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2003-05-09","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-04-07","city":"STATESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","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":"2030-04-30","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":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050116","mode_s_code":"50152357","mode_s_hex":"A0D4EF","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N1527E","name":"DUNAVENT DUNCAN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ORMOND BEACH","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-11-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA93LA016","probable_cause":"A FIRE OF AN UNDETERMINED SOURCE WHICH ERUPTED IN THE LEFT CABIN AREA DURING TAKEOFF.","registration":"N1527E","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on November 10, 1992 at Ormond Beach, FL: no injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1527E is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 9, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Dunavent Duncan, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 9, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-2037 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1527E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271034, cancelled June 29, 1994); Champion 7AC (serial 7AC-5090, cancelled February 27, 1964). 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 N1527E: Accident on November 10, 1992 at Ormond Beach, FL: no injuries, destroyed. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-2037","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"813 ELMWOOD RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00039919","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1527E","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"286251182"}