{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1983-08-16","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-02-28","city":"HASTINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","cruise_speed_mph":30,"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":"2031-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-02-28","maker":"Adams Balloon","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ADAMS BALLOON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"0050105","mode_s_code":"51133206","mode_s_hex":"A4B686","model":"A55S","n_number":"N40206","name":"REEDER ERIC L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N40206 is an Adams Balloon A55S, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Hastings, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 16, 1983.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Reeder Eric L, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 16, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 129 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N40206 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 (serial T34-019, cancelled February 12, 1982); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305004, cancelled August 15, 1973). 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 N40206. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":0,"serial_number":"129","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1111 W STATE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00181074","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N40206","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"490589566"}