{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1995-12-21","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-07-11","city":"ROCHESTER","country_code":"US","county_code":"109","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":"2033-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-11","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7484050","mode_s_code":"52307026","mode_s_hex":"A98E16","model":"S-49A","n_number":"N7146C","name":"LESMEISTER MICHAEL A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TANNERSVILLE","damage":"DEST","date":"1987-06-26","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC87FA188","probable_cause":"","registration":"N7146C","state":"NY","summary":"Accident on June 26, 1987 at Tannersville, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7146C is an Aerostar International Inc S-49A, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 21, 1995.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lesmeister Michael A, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. 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 S49A-3204 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7146C was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB-1076, cancelled April 27, 1990); Piper PA-32R-300 (serial 32R7680041, cancelled September 29, 1989); Beech T-34A (serial G27, cancelled July 12, 1965). 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 N7146C: Accident on June 26, 1987 at Tannersville, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"S49A-3204","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"670 28TH ST SE APT 150","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00195761","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7146C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"559046851"}