{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-10-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-04-13","city":"HARVEYS LAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"079","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":"2027-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7485050","mode_s_code":"53100335","mode_s_hex":"AC80DD","model":"S-50A","n_number":"N9043V","name":"BULKLEY JAMES C","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"KANSAS CITY","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-09-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MKC86LA192","probable_cause":"","registration":"N9043V","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on September 23, 1986 at Kansas City, MO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9043V is an Aerostar International Inc S-50A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1997.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bulkley James C, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S50A-3004 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9043V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-55 (serial TE919, cancelled March 21, 1989). 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 N9043V: Accident on September 23, 1986 at Kansas City, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"S50A-3004","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1974 MONKEY HOLLOW RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00553962","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9043V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"186187813"}