{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1989-12-04","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-06","city":"WESTTOWN","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","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":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-05-06","maker":"Thunder Balloons Ltd","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THUNDER BALLOONS LTD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8970116","mode_s_code":"53357564","mode_s_hex":"ADDF74","model":"AX9-140 SII","n_number":"N993TC","name":"WILLIAMS DAVID M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N993TC is a Thunder Balloons Ltd AX9-140 SII, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Westtown, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 4, 1989.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Williams David M, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated December 4, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1601US for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N993TC 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N993TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":8,"serial_number":"1601US","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"103 COUNTY ROUTE 12","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00084612","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N993TC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"109984008"}