{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-10-20","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-05-30","city":"CLIVE","country_code":"US","county_code":"153","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":"Firefly Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050151","mode_s_code":"50357075","mode_s_hex":"A1DE3D","model":"FIREFLY 7-15","n_number":"N21969","name":"PATTERSON TODD M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ARLINGTON","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-02-14","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW90LA070","probable_cause":"POOR JUDGEMENT OF THE PILOT AFTER CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE, HIS DECISION TO MAKE LOW PASSES AT NIGHT (BUZZING), FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE, AND DIVERSION OF HIS ATTENTION.  DARKNESS WAS A RELATED FACTOR.","registration":"N21969","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on February 14, 1990 at Arlington, TX: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"PATTERSON ERRIN J","plain_english":"N21969 is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Clive, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 20, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Patterson Todd M, a co-owned, certificate issued May 30, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 20, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2045 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N21969 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15074577, cancelled March 2, 1999). 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 N21969: Accident on February 14, 1990 at Arlington, TX: serious 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"F7-2045","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1659 NW 91ST ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00129199","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N21969","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"503256221"}