Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from Lindstrand Balloons!

We wish everyone a joyous time during this busy holiday season. Lindstrand Balloons will be closed from Dec. 23rd thru Jan. 2nd. We will be answering your emails and phone calls when we return on Tuesday Jan. 3rd.

New Maintenance Manual 1.8 Available for Download

Please go to our “Downloads” page for Version 1.8 of the Lindstrand Balloons USA Manual for Continued Airworthiness, along with Appendices A, B & C.  This manual has been completely revised and is dated December 1, 2011.  This new format was designed to make the manual more user friendly by relocating all diagrams and photos into a separate appendix (C); this will also make the formatting and uploading of future revisions easier.

If you have any questions regarding any aspect of the new manual and or inspection checklist, please call us at 815-777-6006.

Aerostar / Lindstrand joint Maintenance Seminar

Last week more than twenty repair station personnel from across the country (and UK) attended the joint Aerostar/Lindstrand Maintenance Seminar held at the Lindstrand factory in Galena, IL.  Classroom reviews, several hands-on sessions and even a couple of test inflations were all completed successfully.  Each participant had to complete both paper and practical tests before they were issued a certificate of completion by Martin Harms from Aerostar and Phil Thompson from Lindstrand Balloons.

Parts Orders and Factory Hours

Just a reminder our UPS pick-up is approximately 3:00 pm (CST).  Our goal is to send out shop orders the day we receive them.  So please keep in mind that in addition to gathering the parts, and sometimes cutting a fabric panel, we must prepare the proper paperwork and invoice to be included in the shipment.  To assure our ability to help you, please call no later than 1:00 pm (CST) to place your order.  

Have you called our factory on a Friday only to find an answering machine instead of a friendly greeting from Cassie?  Last year as gas prices were rising, our employees suggested we try 4 10-hour workdays, Monday thru Thursday.  It has worked out so well that we’ve kept those hours and although some of us still put in extra hours on Friday, we are usually only here until noon (unless we’re headed to a balloon event!).  We continue to check our e-mail daily, so if  you’ve missed us on the phone on a Friday, you can always send an email message.