{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-11-30","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"PROSSER","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-01-01","maker":"General Balloon Corp.","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GENERAL BALLOON CORP.","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3760202","mode_s_code":"50446223","mode_s_hex":"A24C93","model":"AX-6","n_number":"N2471Z","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2471Z is a General Balloon Corp. AX-6, a balloon with no engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Prosser, Washington. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 30, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 30, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 471 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N2471Z according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N2471Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"471","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"7105 S MISSIMER RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00792742","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2471Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"993507290"}