{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-12-28","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-03-28","city":"PAGOSA SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","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":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FIREFLY BALLOONS 2010 INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050167","mode_s_code":"50621165","mode_s_hex":"A32275","model":"FIREFLY 12B","n_number":"N30053","name":"ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLOON ADVENTURES","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N30053 is a Firefly Balloons 2010 Inc FIREFLY 12B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures, a corporation in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rocky Mountain Balloon Adventures, a corporation, certificate issued March 28, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 28, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F12B-011 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N30053 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P (serial 4636418, cancelled June 22, 2007); Beckett Oris Glenn ZENITH CH 701 (serial 7-1820, cancelled July 2, 2004); Cessna T210L (serial 21059881, cancelled December 23, 1981). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N30053. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"F12B-011","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 4095","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01227827","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N30053","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"811574095"}