{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-07-17","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2003-04-03","city":"EAGLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33805","engine_horsepower":60,"engine_maker":"HONDA","engine_model":"CX500","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airships","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Thunder & Colt","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THUNDER & COLT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2301206","mode_s_code":"52621462","mode_s_hex":"AB2332","model":"AS 105","n_number":"N81683","name":"AERONAUTICAL ADVENTURES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N81683 is a Thunder & Colt AS 105, an airship with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Aeronautical Adventures INC, a corporation in Eagle, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 17, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aeronautical Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2003, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 17, 2003, 20 years after the 1983 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 490 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N81683 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N81683. 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":6,"serial_number":"490","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ID","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1756","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Blimp or dirigible","type_aircraft_code":"3","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00414812","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N81683","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1983,"zip":"836169106"}