{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-09-29","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-02-25","city":"GARNER","country_code":"US","county_code":"101","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":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485001","mode_s_code":"51523124","mode_s_hex":"A6A654","model":"S-57A","n_number":"N5277Z","name":"LATTIN THOMAS K","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PINE BLUFF","damage":"DEST","date":"1995-04-09","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"FTW95LA162","probable_cause":"THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM REQUIRED AIRSPEED FOR FLIGHT, RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT'S DIVERTED ATTENTION.","registration":"N5277Z","state":"AR","summary":"Accident on April 9, 1995 at Pine Bluff, AR: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5277Z is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Garner, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lattin Thomas K, an individual, certificate issued February 25, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3220 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5277Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18 DROMADER (serial 1Z01812, cancelled June 2, 1995); Piper PA-22-108 (serial 228972, cancelled June 25, 1985). 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 N5277Z: Accident on April 9, 1995 at Pine Bluff, AR: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"S57A-3220","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"139 ALLIE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00265970","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5277Z","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"275296712"}