{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1998-09-29","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-17","city":"DANVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","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":"2023-12-17","maker":"Aerostar International Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7487906","mode_s_code":"53123745","mode_s_hex":"ACA7E5","model":"S53A","n_number":"N9140F","name":"SPICER TODD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Albuquerque","damage":"MINR","date":"2022-10-07","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN23LA006","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s inability to find a suitable landing area in a critical fuel situation and his decision to land on a highway, which resulted in the balloon impacting a bridge railing and terrain.","registration":"N9140F","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on October 7, 2022 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9140F is an Aerostar International Inc S53A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Danville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Spicer Todd, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 29, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S53A-3052 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9140F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4622004, cancelled February 22, 1994). 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 N9140F: Accident on October 7, 2022 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries, minor 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"S53A-3052","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"510 ORCHARD ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00363826","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9140F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1998,"zip":"618322465"}