{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2008-07-08","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-03","city":"CUSTER","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","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":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-12","maker":"West Kay Ann","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WEST KAY ANN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056255R","mode_s_code":"51533414","mode_s_hex":"A6B70C","model":"WEST-2","n_number":"N5314D","name":"PRAIRIE SKY INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TOGIAK","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-05-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC91LA060","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO SECURE THE CARGO PRIOR TO THE FLIGHT.  CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE ROUGH, UNEVEN TERRAIN.","registration":"N5314D","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on May 22, 1991 at Togiak, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5314D is a West Kay Ann WEST-2, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Prairie Sky INC, a corporation in Custer, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Prairie Sky INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5314D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50212, cancelled April 21, 1958); Cessna 172N (serial 17272511, cancelled date not given). 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 N5314D: Accident on May 22, 1991 at Togiak, AK: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"747 MOUNT RUSHMORE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00470279","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5314D","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"577301638"}