{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-04-29","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-01-15","city":"CHAGRIN FALLS","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Balony Kubicek Spol Sro","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BALONY KUBICEK SPOL SRO","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1370503","mode_s_code":"52512525","mode_s_hex":"AA9555","model":"BB26Z","n_number":"N781ME","name":"RUSSELL LUKE S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N781ME is a Balony Kubicek Spol Sro BB26Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Russell Luke S, an individual, certificate issued January 15, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 29, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 793 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N781ME was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A-747, cancelled February 13, 2003). 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 N781ME. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"793","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OH","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12070 MARYDALE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01065491","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N781ME","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"440239401"}