Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B
N2224H is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairacres, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 10, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88B · all AX8-88Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 351
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A1EB5B (octal 50365533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 10, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00246329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hawkins Charles W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 744
Fairacres, NM 88033-0744
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2224H, 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 Hawkins Charles W, an individual, certificate issued November 2, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 10, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2224H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Engineering & Research 415-C (serial 2847, cancelled November 2, 2001). 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 N2224H: Accident on December 14, 2019 at Las Cruces, NM: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Head AX8 88B · operated under 091
A burner flameout, which resulted in the pilot's inability to arrest the balloon’s descent and its subsequent impact with power lines as he was trying to relight the burner.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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