{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1991-10-17","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1992-02-10","city":"JACKSONVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","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":"Head Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280300","mode_s_code":"51274216","mode_s_hex":"A5788E","model":"AX8-105","n_number":"N45124","name":"VAUGHN CHARLES M DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"JACKSONVILLE","damage":"","date":"1993-07-20","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"MIA93LA159","probable_cause":"THE IMPROPER PROCEDURES BY THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND.","registration":"N45124","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on July 20, 1993 at Jacksonville, FL: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"BALLOON MAN","plain_english":"N45124 is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 1992 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 17, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vaughn Charles M DBA, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 1992, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 17, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 182 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N45124 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076742, cancelled date not given). 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 N45124: Accident on July 20, 1993 at Jacksonville, FL: serious injuries. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"182","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2548 PARENTAL HOME RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00353662","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45124","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1991,"zip":"32216"}