Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B
N20498 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ad Astra Per Aspera LLC, an LLC in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 15, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88B · all AX8-88Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 410
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A1A493 (octal 50322223)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 15, 2011
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01072302
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ad Astra Per Aspera LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1622 13Th Ave N
Fort Dodge, IA 50501-7704
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N20498, 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 Ad Astra Per Aspera LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 29, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 15, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 410 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20498 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cameron Balloons Us A-105 (serial 5406, cancelled September 25, 2006). 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 N20498. 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