{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-04-14","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-07-05","city":"WAYLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","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":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Head Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280200","mode_s_code":"50314171","mode_s_hex":"A19879","model":"AX8-88","n_number":"N20128","name":"KOHTZ KEITH A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SKANEATELES","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-08-22","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"NYC93LA170","probable_cause":"THE IMPROPER INSTALLATION OF THE ENGINE OIL FILTER, AND THE SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF OIL AND ENGINE POWER, RESULTING IN FORCED LANDING AND COLLSION WITH TREES.","registration":"N20128","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on August 22, 1993 at Skaneateles, NY: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N20128 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wayland, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 14, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kohtz Keith A, an individual, certificate issued July 5, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 14, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 399 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N20128 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S10042, cancelled February 8, 2006). 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 N20128: Accident on August 22, 1993 at Skaneateles, NY: serious injuries, substantial 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":4,"serial_number":"399","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"695 135TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01068871","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N20128","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"493489104"}