{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1996-03-28","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-03","city":"MOUNT WASHINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","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":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-03","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485001","mode_s_code":"52311042","mode_s_hex":"A99222","model":"S-57A","n_number":"N7158T","name":"BROWN CHARLES S JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7158T is an Aerostar International Inc S-57A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mount Washington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 28, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Brown Charles S JR, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 28, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S57A-3183 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7158T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 707-384C (serial 20036, cancelled July 26, 1990); Cessna 172A (serial 46758, cancelled November 8, 1963). 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 N7158T. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"S57A-3183","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"KY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"655 FLATLICK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00555931","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7158T","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"400477004"}