Avian Balloon FALCON II
N15053 is an Avian Balloon FALCON II, a balloon with no engine, built in 1983. It is registered to an individual in Doylestown, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated May 24, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Avian Balloon
- Model
- FALCON II · all FALCON IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 108
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 0
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- A0CD52 (octal 50146522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · May 24, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00392812
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rote Shannon R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17813 Edwards Rd
Doylestown, OH 44230-9303
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15053, 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 Rote Shannon R, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated May 24, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15053 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper E-2 (serial 204, cancelled February 1, 1951); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287225571, cancelled date not given). 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]
1 NTSB record under N15053: Accident on July 24, 2004 at Middletown, OH: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Avian Falcon II · operated under 091
The passenger's inadvertent fall from the basket, during landing. A factor in this accident was the windy conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA177 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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