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N438TC

Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 69A

Valid Colorado

N438TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer COLT 69A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1992. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ouray, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 21, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
Model
COLT 69A
Serial number
2259USA
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
3
Year built
1992
Transponder code
A54282 (octal 51241202)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 2, 2005
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 21, 1992
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00244042

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Conrad David G
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 1791
Ouray, CO 81427-1791
Co-owners
Conrad Mary Susan

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data