{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GALENA","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2019-11-27","maker":"Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ARBC INC DBA LINDSTRAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5190026","mode_s_code":"51133156","mode_s_hex":"A4B66E","model":"77X","n_number":"N4020G","name":"A R B C INC DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HUMPHREY","damage":"DEST","date":"1998-06-18","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW98FA272","probable_cause":"The pilot's visual lookout was inadequate for undetermined reasons.","registration":"N4020G","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on June 18, 1998 at Humphrey, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"LINDSTRAND BALLOONS USA","plain_english":"N4020G is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 77X, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to A R B C INC DBA, a corporation in Galena, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to A R B C INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5718 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4020G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-R1340 (serial R1340-003DC, cancelled November 15, 2012); Bell 206A (serial 151, cancelled May 8, 1974). 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 N4020G: Accident on June 18, 1998 at Humphrey, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"5718","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11440 DANDAR ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01308646","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4020G","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"610368102"}