{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-11-08","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-07-30","city":"MILES CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","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":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7486060","mode_s_code":"52257622","mode_s_hex":"A95F92","model":"S-60A","n_number":"N7029C","name":"HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER HOT AIR BALLOONS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PACIFIC OCEAN","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-06-19","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX91LA266","probable_cause":"IMPROPER TOUCHDOWN IN THE WATER CAUSING SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. LOSS OF POWER ON THE NUMBER 2 ENGINE AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF QUALIFICATIONS WERE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.","registration":"N7029C","state":"PO","summary":"Accident on June 19, 1991 at Pacific Ocean, PO: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7029C is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to High Plains Drifter Hot Air Balloons LLC, an LLC in Miles City, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 8, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to High Plains Drifter Hot Air Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 2000, 6 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3197 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7029C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman HU-16 (serial 997213, cancelled August 22, 1991); Grumman TBM-3E (serial 53914, cancelled February 23, 1972). 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 N7029C: Accident on June 19, 1991 at Pacific Ocean, PO: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"S60A-3197","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"507 PLEASANT ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00205062","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7029C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1994,"zip":"593013030"}