{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-07-20","city":"AUSTIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"453","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":"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":"2023-08-15","maker":"Head Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280200","mode_s_code":"51274415","mode_s_hex":"A5790D","model":"AX8-88","n_number":"N4516R","name":"SNYDER ROBERT JAMES","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MESQUITE","damage":"MINR","date":"1995-07-29","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW95LA323","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE WEATHER EVALUATION AND THE CREWMEMBER'S FAILURE TO HOLD ONTO THE BASKET. A FACTOR WAS THE HIGH WIND.","registration":"N4516R","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 29, 1995 at Mesquite, TX: serious injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4516R is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. 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 Snyder Robert James, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. 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 165 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4516R 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 N4516R: Accident on July 29, 1995 at Mesquite, TX: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"165","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7104 HESTER RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00285111","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4516R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"787252632"}