{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-10-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-07-22","city":"BROOMFIELD","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":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Ultramagic","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ULTRAMAGIC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9130002","mode_s_code":"50620756","mode_s_hex":"A321EE","model":"M-105","n_number":"N30018","name":"VANDE HOEF EDWARD L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Louisville","damage":"MINR","date":"2013-06-08","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN13IA350","probable_cause":"The balloon's encounter with unforecast strong gusting wind, which resulted in a high-wind landing. Contributing to the accident was the National Weather Service's misjudgment of the timing and underestimation of the magnitude of the frontal boundary moving across the region.","registration":"N30018","state":"CO","summary":"Incident on June 8, 2013 at Louisville, CO: minor injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N30018 is an Ultramagic M-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Broomfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 4, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vande Hoef Edward L, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 4, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 105/71 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N30018 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 177 (serial 17701026, cancelled May 18, 1978); Consolidated Vultee BT-13 (serial 7397, cancelled March 23, 1955). 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 N30018: Incident on June 8, 2013 at Louisville, CO: minor injuries, minor 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"105/71","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"890 HEMLOCK WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00873615","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N30018","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"800201815"}