Head Balloons AX8-105
N2135R is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 22, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 394
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A1C7BE (octal 50343676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 22, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01041614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffith Justin M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10252 Ventana Hills Rd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-4781 - Co-owners
- Griffith Amber B
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2135R, 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 Griffith Justin M, a co-owned, certificate issued February 17, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 22, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 394 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2135R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing CH 47SD (serial M4134, cancelled January 23, 2002); Burkhart Grob Flugzeugbau G103 TWIN ASTIR (serial 3601, cancelled July 18, 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]
2 NTSB records under N2135R: Accident on July 25, 1992 at Knoxville, TN: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 8, 1986 at Benton, TN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Burkhart Grob G103 · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY INSTRUCT THE PASSENGER ON AIRCRAFT CONTROLS PRIOR TO TAKEOFF, RESULTING IN THE PASSENGER INADVERTENTLY RELEASING THE TOW CABLE AS THE GLIDER WAS BEING TOWED THROUGH 150 FEET.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA92LA153 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Burkhart Grob G103 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86LA164 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
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