{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1994-07-25","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-04","city":"STATESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","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":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-08-04","maker":"Galaxy Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GALAXY BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3760525","mode_s_code":"51541247","mode_s_hex":"A6C2A7","model":"GALAXY 8","n_number":"N5347S","name":"LITTON DAVID B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"COLUMBIA","damage":"","date":"1996-11-03","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CHI97LA022","probable_cause":"the pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing.  Factors relating to the accident were: the ditch, which was encountered during the landing; and high vegetation, which covered the ditch making it not visible to the pilot.","registration":"N5347S","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on November 3, 1996 at Columbia, MO: serious injuries.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5347S is a Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 25, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Litton David B, an individual, certificate issued August 4, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 GLX-1038 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5347S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 337A (serial 337-0447, cancelled May 12, 1970). 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 N5347S: Accident on November 3, 1996 at Columbia, MO: serious injuries. 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":3,"serial_number":"GLX-1038","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4385 TAYLORSVILLE HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00944952","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5347S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"286251843"}