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N1519J

Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 8B

Valid Colorado

N1519J is a Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 8B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2001. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Commerce City, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2002 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 18, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Galaxy Balloons Inc
Model
GALAXY 8B · all GALAXY 8Bs and related versions
Serial number
GLX-1048B
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A0D182 (octal 50150602)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 18, 2002
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 18, 2001
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00363974

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Phillips David L
Type
Individual
Address
7090 Grape St
Commerce City, CO 80022-1909

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1976-05-13Piper PA-28-140 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1519J, 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 Phillips David L, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2002, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 18, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GLX-1048B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1519J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-23916, cancelled May 13, 1976). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1519J. 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