Head Balloons Inc AX7-77
N2028L is a Head Balloons Inc AX7-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Shelby, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 15, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX7-77 · all AX7-77s and related versions
- Serial number
- 392
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A19CEC (octal 50316354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 2015
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 15, 2009
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01032969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hurdt Joseph A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 110 Westwind Dr
Shelby, NC 28152-8657
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 4
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The public federal record on N2028L, 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 Hurdt Joseph A, an individual, certificate issued May 7, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 15, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 392 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2028L was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 412EP (serial 36288, cancelled January 22, 2002); Ayres Corporation S2R-G1 (serial G1107, cancelled November 21, 1997); Weatherly Aviation Co Inc 620B (serial 1579, cancelled December 6, 1994). 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 N2028L. 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