{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1983-10-14","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1984-12-07","city":"PITTSBURGH","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":67,"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":"1050103","mode_s_code":"51041150","mode_s_hex":"A44268","model":"FIREFLY 6B","n_number":"N3738H","name":"MCCOY TIMOTHY I","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BUTLER","damage":"SUBS","date":"1984-02-10","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC84LA139","probable_cause":"","registration":"N3738H","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on February 10, 1984 at Butler, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3738H is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 1984 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 14, 1983.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mccoy Timothy I, an individual, certificate issued December 7, 1984, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 14, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F6B-001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3738H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M20J (serial 24-0915, cancelled March 3, 1980); Ercoupe 415-C (serial 4363, cancelled October 14, 1947). 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 N3738H: Accident on February 10, 1984 at Butler, PA: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":0,"serial_number":"F6B-001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"239 SHALER ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00070014","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3738H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"15211"}