{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1996-10-10","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-03-14","city":"MURFREESBORO","country_code":"US","county_code":"149","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":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-21","maker":"Balloon Works","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALLOON WORKS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050111","mode_s_code":"50707264","mode_s_hex":"A38EB4","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N3282P","name":"WHEELER ARCHIE J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Murfreesboro","damage":"","date":"2017-07-15","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA17LA243","probable_cause":"The passenger's failure to let go of the balloon's gondola when the balloon began to ascend. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to maintain control of the balloon after landing, which resulted in an inadvertent takeoff.","registration":"N3282P","state":"TN","summary":"Accident on July 15, 2017 at Murfreesboro, TN: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3282P is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 10, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wheeler Archie J, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F8B-520 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3282P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-160 (serial 23-1227, cancelled May 1, 1961). 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 N3282P: Accident on July 15, 2017 at Murfreesboro, TN: serious injuries. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-520","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1710 JOBEN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00816211","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3282P","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":0,"zip":"371285813"}