{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-04-01","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-27","maker":"Lindstrand Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LINDSTRAND BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5180005","mode_s_code":"51500043","mode_s_hex":"A68023","model":"90A","n_number":"N518LB","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N518LB is a Lindstrand Balloons 90A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as \"n-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 1, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5036 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N518LB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Barnes Le Roy E KR-1 (serial 5186, cancelled August 5, 1994). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N518LB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"","registrant_type_code":"","seats":1,"serial_number":"5036","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation","status_code":"10","status_short":"Pending cancellation","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00716471","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N518LB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":""}