{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-07-31","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-10-31","city":"CARSON CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"117","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":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Cameron Balloons Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880260","mode_s_code":"51532025","mode_s_hex":"A6B415","model":"N-90","n_number":"N5309W","name":"NIEMI MATTHEW","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BURLINGTON\u007f","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-02-23","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI92FA095","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL AFTER ENCOUNTERING INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN CRUISE FLIGHT.  RELATED FACTORS ARE THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE WEATHER EVALUATION, THE LOW CEILING AND REDUCED VISIBILITY (FOG).","registration":"N5309W","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on February 23, 1992 at Burlington\u007f, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"NIEMI LAINIE","plain_english":"N5309W is a Cameron Balloons Us N-90, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Carson City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 31, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Niemi Matthew, a co-owned, certificate issued October 31, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 31, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6126 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5309W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28 (serial 28363, cancelled May 4, 1993). 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 N5309W: Accident on February 23, 1992 at Burlington\u007f, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"6126","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"11237 E CONDENSERY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00946661","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5309W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"488119579"}