{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1991-06-21","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-10-18","city":"FENTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7486067","mode_s_code":"52051442","mode_s_hex":"A85322","model":"RAVEN S-66A","n_number":"N6353T","name":"BALLOON QUEST INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6353T is an Aerostar International Inc RAVEN S-66A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation in Fenton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 21, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Balloon Quest INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 18, 2001, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 21, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S66A-3046 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N6353T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: North American P-51D (serial 44-74429, cancelled January 12, 1971); Cessna R182 (serial R18201993, 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N6353T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":8,"serial_number":"S66A-3046","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2470 GRANGE HALL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00015511","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6353T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1991,"zip":"484301634"}