Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N2136F is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 8, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 395
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A1C7D7 (octal 50343727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 8, 2010
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01049076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bickers Donald S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1301 Tarklin Valley Rd
Knoxville, TN 37920-9402
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2136F, 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 Bickers Donald S, an individual, certificate issued March 25, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 8, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 395 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2136F was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Shank A J KITFOX MODEL 2 (serial 385, cancelled October 18, 2001); Cessna U206 (serial U2060336, cancelled January 18, 1965); Piper PA-28-181 (serial 287990189, cancelled date not given). 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 N2136F: Accident on August 28, 2001 at Battle Ground, WA: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Shank Kitfox Model II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during climbout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA01LA160 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