{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-08-19","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-09-11","city":"ARLINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","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":"2031-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-22","maker":"Lindstrand Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LINDSTRAND BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5180005","mode_s_code":"51756235","mode_s_hex":"A7DC9D","model":"90A","n_number":"N6053K","name":"MAGNIFLIGHT LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PUNTA GORDA","damage":"SUBS","date":"1993-12-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA94LA033","probable_cause":"THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S IMPROPER USE OF CARBURETOR HEAT DURING A VFR APPROACH FOR LANDING. THIS RESULTED IN A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO FUEL SYSTEM CARBURETOR ICING.","registration":"N6053K","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on December 2, 1993 at Punta Gorda, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6053K is a Lindstrand Balloons 90A, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Magniflight LLC, an LLC in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 19, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Magniflight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 11, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 19, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5146 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6053K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15077497, cancelled February 24, 1997); Republic RC-3 (serial 228, cancelled October 17, 1955). 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 N6053K: Accident on December 2, 1993 at Punta Gorda, FL: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"5146","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1433 CROWNHILL DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00685950","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6053K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"760122815"}