{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2003-05-01","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2003-08-26","city":"ANN ARBOR","country_code":"US","county_code":"161","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":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Cameron Balloons Us","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CAMERON BALLOONS US","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1880224","mode_s_code":"52573563","mode_s_hex":"AAF773","model":"C-80","n_number":"N80546","name":"WINDDRIFTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"EUNICE","damage":"DEST","date":"1994-10-14","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW95FA016","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY USE CARBURETOR HEAT, THE FORMATION OF CARBURETOR ICE, AND FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ROTOR RPM AFTER LOSS OF ENGINE POWER, WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF CONTROL AND COLLISION WITH TERRAIN. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: THE WEATHER CONDITION, WHICH WAS CONDUCIVE TO CARBURETOR ICING.","registration":"N80546","state":"LA","summary":"Accident on October 14, 1994 at Eunice, LA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"REDDING","damage":"DEST","date":"1983-06-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX83FVG12","probable_cause":"","registration":"N80546","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on June 4, 1983 at Redding, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N80546 is a Cameron Balloons Us C-80, a balloon with no engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Winddrifters INC, a corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2003 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 1, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Winddrifters INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2003, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 1, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6309 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N80546 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1204, cancelled October 31, 1996); Globe GC-1B (serial 49, cancelled December 4, 1956); Yarnell Don C GRASSHOPPER (serial 46193801, cancelled date not given). 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":"2 NTSB records under N80546: Accident on October 14, 1994 at Eunice, LA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on June 4, 1983 at Redding, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"6309","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"360 HILLDALE DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00933946","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N80546","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"481051119"}