{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2018-11-08","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-28","city":"ROCHESTER","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","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":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Andrew Philip Richardson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ANDREW PHILIP RICHARDSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05636E6","mode_s_code":"51130073","mode_s_hex":"A4B03B","model":"A-88","n_number":"N4009G","name":"MAGEE BRIAN T","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4009G is an Andrew Philip Richardson A-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated November 8, 2018.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Magee Brian T, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development; 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 240 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4009G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Quicksilver SPORT II (serial RAS2093, cancelled June 30, 2011); Bell 206A (serial 179, cancelled June 17, 1971). 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 N4009G. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"240","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"595 CULVER PKWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01253462","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4009G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"146094563"}