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N2055H

Head Balloons Inc AX8-88

Valid Alabama

N2055H is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Madison, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 31, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
Serial number
349
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A1A7A5 (octal 50323645)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 25, 2014
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · October 31, 2007
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00211359

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Swann Phyllis Ruth
Type
Co-owned
Address
27576 Wall St
Madison, AL 35756
Co-owners
Fitzjarrald Daniel E

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

1989-09-15Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1951-11-21Engineering & Research 415-C · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2055H, 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 Swann Phyllis Ruth, a co-owned, certificate issued February 25, 2014, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 31, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 349 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2055H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 7 (serial 785, cancelled September 15, 1989); Engineering & Research 415-C (serial 2678, cancelled November 21, 1951). 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 N2055H. 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