{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2009-03-14","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-20","city":"MASON","country_code":"US","county_code":"065","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":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-20","maker":"Mourning Samuel L","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MOURNING SAMUEL L","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05627PJ","mode_s_code":"52647403","mode_s_hex":"AB4F03","model":"DARWIN SPECIAL","n_number":"N828EM","name":"KERR ROBERT C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N828EM is a Mourning Samuel L DARWIN SPECIAL, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mason, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 14, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kerr Robert C, an individual, certificate issued December 20, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N828EM 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 N828EM. 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":"001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1601 S COLLEGE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01019909","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N828EM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"488549712"}