{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1992-10-29","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-01-10","city":"BASALT","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","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":"2029-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-02","maker":"Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THUNDER & COLT AIRBORNE AMER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2301225","mode_s_code":"51231646","mode_s_hex":"A533A6","model":"240A","n_number":"N434TC","name":"ABOVE IT ALL BALLOON CO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PHOENIX","damage":"MINR","date":"1996-09-27","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX96FA344","probable_cause":"The pilot's impairment of judgment and performance due to drugs which led to his misjudgment of his descent rate during landing.  Contributing factors were: his failure to activate the deflation device (rip line) and turn off the pilot lights, improper use of burner controls, poor judgment, and the relative high wind condition.","registration":"N434TC","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on September 27, 1996 at Phoenix, AZ: serious injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N434TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer 240A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Above It All Balloon CO INC, a corporation in Basalt, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 29, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Above It All Balloon CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 10, 2005, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 29, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2258USA for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N434TC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N434TC: Accident on September 27, 1996 at Phoenix, AZ: 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"2258USA","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 3048","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00314042","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N434TC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1992,"zip":"816213048"}