{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2014-06-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-07-13","city":"ELIZABETHTOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","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":"2030-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-13","maker":"Head Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280102","mode_s_code":"51131315","mode_s_hex":"A4B2CD","model":"AX9-118","n_number":"N40104","name":"PLANK TODD N","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"New Holland","damage":"MINR","date":"2015-08-16","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA15LA319","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to adequately secure the vent line, which resulted in the premature deflation of the balloon\u2019s envelope and its subsequent contact with power lines. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's choice of an unsuitable landing area, which had power lines opposite the approach end, and his subsequent failure to maintain adequate clearance from the lines during the landing.","registration":"N40104","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on August 16, 2015 at New Holland, PA: serious injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N40104 is a Head Balloons Inc AX9-118, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 4, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Plank Todd N, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. 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 439 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N40104 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 727-2M1 (serial 21091, cancelled July 12, 2006); Stinson 108 (serial 10834, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N40104: Accident on August 16, 2015 at New Holland, PA: serious injuries, minor 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":1,"serial_number":"439","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"217 BULLRUSH LDG","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01153468","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N40104","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"170229350"}