{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2012-09-18","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-09-18","city":"PHOENIX","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","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":"2033-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-18","maker":"Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ARBC INC DBA LINDSTRAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5190013","mode_s_code":"50502073","mode_s_hex":"A2843B","model":"260A","n_number":"N261RR","name":"GENTLE BREEZE BALLOONING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Casa Grande","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-03-02","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA118","probable_cause":"The hot air balloon\u2019s encounter with downdraft wind conditions in mountainous terrain and subsequent impact with terrain.","registration":"N261RR","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on March 2, 2026 at Casa Grande, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N261RR is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 260A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Gentle Breeze Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 18, 2012.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gentle Breeze Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 18, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 18, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5520 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N261RR 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":"1 NTSB record under N261RR: Accident on March 2, 2026 at Casa Grande, AZ: minor 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"5520","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2155 E LIBERTY LN APT 133","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01100548","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N261RR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2012,"zip":"850488130"}