Robinson David G CATERPILLAR
N12UP is a Robinson David G CATERPILLAR, a balloon with no engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Half Moon Bay, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 1996 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 17, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson David G
- Model
- CATERPILLAR
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A05329 (octal 50051451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 1996
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 17, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00456001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinson David G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 659 Potter Ave
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019-1832
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N12UP, 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.
Valid registration to Robinson David G, an individual, certificate issued June 5, 1996, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 17, 1997, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12UP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T8020053, cancelled July 17, 2015); Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 722, cancelled August 27, 2003). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12UP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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