{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1989-12-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-07-24","city":"ORLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","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":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485057","mode_s_code":"51015213","mode_s_hex":"A41A8B","model":"RAVEN S57-A","n_number":"N3635U","name":"JAMES RUSSELL D","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Albuquerque","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-10-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN06LA002","probable_cause":"the pilot's improper in flight planning decision to takeoff and land (splash and dash) in close proximity to trees. Contributing factors are the trees and the water.","registration":"N3635U","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on October 8, 2005 at Albuquerque, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"JAMES GAY J","plain_english":"N3635U is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S57-A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Orland, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 4, 1989.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to James Russell D, a co-owned, certificate issued July 24, 2008, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 4, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3091 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3635U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper AEROSTAR 601P (serial 31P-0778-8063391, cancelled July 11, 1980); Cessna 182F (serial 18255035, cancelled October 3, 1963). 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 N3635U: Accident on October 8, 2005 at Albuquerque, NM: no 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":1,"serial_number":"S57A-3091","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4232 COUNTY ROAD MM","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00674791","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3635U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"959639170"}