{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-10-12","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-02-19","city":"PORTAL","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","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":"2028-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-21","maker":"Balloon Works","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALLOON WORKS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1050111","mode_s_code":"52261545","mode_s_hex":"A96365","model":"FIREFLY 8B-15","n_number":"N70396","name":"FUSCO LISA L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"PURVIS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-03-25","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"MIA89LA114","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE ENGINE'S REAR PISTON.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE:  THE PILOT'S LACK OF ALTITUDE FOR A FORCED LANDING AND TREES IN THE EMERGENCY LANDING AREA.","registration":"N70396","state":"MS","summary":"Accident on March 25, 1989 at Purvis, MS: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N70396 is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B-15, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Portal, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 12, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fusco Lisa L, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. 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 F8B-586 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N70396 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dyar Barnard KITFOX (serial 266, cancelled July 27, 1995); Piper J3C-65 (serial 17389, cancelled June 9, 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 N70396: Accident on March 25, 1989 at Purvis, MS: minor 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"F8B-586","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2727 S BRITTANY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00795812","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N70396","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"856328165"}