{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2024-04-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-06-21","city":"MACOMB","country_code":"US","county_code":"109","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":"2031-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-06-21","maker":"Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ARBC INC DBA LINDSTRAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5190026","mode_s_code":"52707661","mode_s_hex":"AB8FB1","model":"77X","n_number":"N844LB","name":"AEROKNOT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Phoenixville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2008-09-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC08FA307","probable_cause":"The separation of a portion of a fuel fitting during a hard landing resulting in release of fuel and a fire in the balloons basket area. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to follow the manufacturer's published procedures to shut down the fuel system prior to landing and the operator's installation of a third fuel tank and the fuel fitting that separated during the hard landing.","registration":"N844LB","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on September 7, 2008 at Phoenixville, PA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N844LB is an Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 77X, a balloon with no engine, built in 2024. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aeroknot INC, a corporation in Macomb, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 4, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aeroknot INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 4, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5790 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N844LB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lindstrand Balloons 150A (serial 5283, cancelled May 19, 2015). 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":"1 NTSB record under N844LB: Accident on September 7, 2008 at Phoenixville, PA: fatal, substantial damage (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":1,"serial_number":"5790","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"196 CHESTATEE LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"01428960","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N844LB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2024,"zip":"614558917"}