Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N20086 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Toms Brook, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated December 16, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 416
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A19592 (octal 50312622)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · December 16, 2011
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01088057
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Funkhouser Daryl
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11972 Back Rd
Toms Brook, VA 22660-2460
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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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N20086, 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 Funkhouser Daryl, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20086 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Schweizer Aircraft Corp SA 2-37A (serial 0014, cancelled September 7, 2006); Short Bros. & Harland SC7 SERIES 2 (serial SH1918, cancelled October 27, 1992); Cessna 172M (serial 17260996, cancelled June 1, 1988). 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 N20086: Accident on July 13, 1992 at Bethel, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Short Brothers SC7 · operated under 135
INADEQUATE SECURITY OF THE CARGO WHICH SHIFTED REARWARD DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE OVER GROSS WEIGHT CONDITION, AND THE IMPROPER ALTERATION OF THE TIE DOWN RINGS BY THE OVERHAULING MAINTENANCE FACILITY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92FA106 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data