{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2019-11-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-08-01","city":"SARATOGA SPRINGS","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55551","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Ballard Mark","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALLARD MARK","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05618TF","mode_s_code":"52061767","mode_s_hex":"A863F7","model":"S-7 COURIER","n_number":"N64MB","name":"BALLARD MARK P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"COLLEGE PARK","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-07-31","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"BFO89FA065","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL DUE TO SPATIAL DISORIENTATION, AND HIS EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRCRAFT, WHICH RESULTED IN OVERLOAD FAILURE OF THE STABILATORS AND WINGS. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES/DIRECTIVES, HIS LACK OF RECENT INSTRUMENT EXPERIENCE, EXCESSIVE GROSS WEIGHT OF THE AIRCRAFT ALLOWED BY THE PILOT, DARK NIGHT, AND ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.","registration":"N64MB","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on July 31, 1989 at College Park, MD: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N64MB is a Ballard Mark S-7 COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saratoga Springs, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Ballard Mark P, an individual, certificate issued August 1, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 26, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S787006 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N64MB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-201T (serial 28R7803323, cancelled July 5, 1990). 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 N64MB: Accident on July 31, 1989 at College Park, MD: fatal, destroyed (4 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"S787006","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1030 WATERSIDE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00883952","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N64MB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2019,"zip":"840458152"}