{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-01-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-05-25","city":"BRISTOL","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","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":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485002","mode_s_code":"51473476","mode_s_hex":"A6773E","model":"S-55A","n_number":"N5156T","name":"PURE MAGIC BALLOON TEAM LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"OJAI","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-02-19","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX90FA094","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S PERFORMING AEROBATIC MANEUVERS AT A LOW ALTITUDE AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE.","registration":"N5156T","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 19, 1990 at Ojai, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5156T is an Aerostar International Inc S-55A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Pure Magic Balloon Team LLC, an LLC in Bristol, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pure Magic Balloon Team LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 4, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S55A-3078 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5156T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7KCAB (serial 9, cancelled August 27, 1990). 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 N5156T: Accident on February 19, 1990 at Ojai, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"S55A-3078","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11967 182ND AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00453617","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5156T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"531049667"}