{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1996-04-10","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-15","city":"HUTTO","country_code":"US","county_code":"491","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":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-15","maker":"Lindstrand Balloons","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LINDSTRAND BALLOONS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5180000","mode_s_code":"53255324","mode_s_hex":"AD5AD4","model":"69A","n_number":"N96LN","name":"SANTA FE BALLOONS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Longview","damage":"SUBS","date":"2010-07-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN10CA456","probable_cause":"The the pilot's inadvertent movement of the burner assembly off center resulting in an in-flight fire of the skirt and envelope of the balloon. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's attention being diverted to venting the envelope to avoid an obstacle and lose altitude.","registration":"N96LN","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 30, 2010 at Longview, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N96LN is a Lindstrand Balloons 69A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Santa Fe Balloons LLC, an LLC in Hutto, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Santa Fe Balloons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 15, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 10, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N96LN 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":"1 NTSB record under N96LN: Accident on July 30, 2010 at Longview, TX: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":1,"serial_number":"5001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1114 CONCAN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00575911","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N96LN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1996,"zip":"786345496"}