{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-10-11","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-04-03","city":"TULSA","country_code":"US","county_code":"143","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":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7486006","mode_s_code":"53115065","mode_s_hex":"AC9A35","model":"RX-6","n_number":"N91081","name":"STURGE GREGORY R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"GRAND CANYON","damage":"DEST","date":"1990-04-13","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX90FA145","probable_cause":"IMPROPER ADJUSTMENT OF THE TURBO-CHARGER ABSOLUTE PRESSURE CONTROLLER, AND IMPROPER MANIPULATION OF THE POWER PLANT CONTROLS BY THE PILOT DURING THE GO-AROUND.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE:  FAILURE OF COMPANY MANAGEMENT TO PROPERLY TRAIN THE PILOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPROVED COMPANY TRAINING PROGRAM, AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN TURBO-CHARGED ENGINE OPERATIONS.","registration":"N91081","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on April 13, 1990 at Grand Canyon, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N91081 is an Aerostar International Inc RX-6, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 11, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sturge Gregory R, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon; 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 RX6-3003 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N91081 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T207 (serial 20700062, cancelled July 11, 1990); Piper J-3C-65/L-4 (serial 13804, cancelled November 15, 1951). 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 N91081: Accident on April 13, 1990 at Grand Canyon, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"RX6-3003","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4139 E 21ST PL","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00074562","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N91081","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"741142110"}