{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2020-10-15","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-02-07","city":"STATESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-02-07","maker":"Head Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280300","mode_s_code":"51436156","mode_s_hex":"A63C6E","model":"AX8-105","n_number":"N5001C","name":"EGERTON JAMES A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHESTERFIELD","damage":"SUBS","date":"1996-06-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI96LA235","probable_cause":"improperly balanced ruddervators and improperly installed ruddervator (elevator) trim tabs, due to improper maintenance, which resulted in ruddervator flutter and substantial damage in the area of the aft fuselage.  Factors relating to the accident were: improper planning/decision by the owner/operator (pilot) by failing to ensure that the annual inspection and required aircraft maintenance were performed; and turbulence that led to vibration of the improperly balanced ruddervator.","registration":"N5001C","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on June 24, 1996 at Chesterfield, MO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"EGERTON TAYLOR N","plain_english":"N5001C is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 15, 2020.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Egerton James A, a co-owned, certificate issued February 7, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 15, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 498 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5001C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B35 (serial D-2263, cancelled May 27, 2015). 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 N5001C: Accident on June 24, 1996 at Chesterfield, MO: no injuries, substantial 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"498","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"271 SEVEN SPRINGS LOOP","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01327564","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5001C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2020,"zip":"286259150"}