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N105VT

Head Balloons AX8-105

Valid Michigan

N105VT is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Apogee Associates LLC, an LLC in Portage, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 1, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons
Model
AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
Serial number
355
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A01934 (octal 50014464)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 16, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 1, 2006
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00332939

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Apogee Associates LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5235 Raborn Ct
Portage, MI 49024-8132

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N105VT, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Apogee Associates LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 16, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 1, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 355 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N105VT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N105VT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data