Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N2252N is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 338
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1F63F (octal 50373077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00148869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Litton David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4385 Taylorsville Hwy
Statesville, NC 28625-1843
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2252N, 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 Litton David B, an individual, certificate issued March 23, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 338 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2252N was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 (serial T41-225DC, cancelled October 29, 2001); Wsk Pzl Mielec M-18A (serial 1Z02030, cancelled February 21, 1992); Cessna 140 (serial 12488, cancelled November 14, 1988). 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 N2252N: Accident on July 5, 2000 at Anahuac, TX: minor 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: Ayres S2R-T34 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the power line. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW00LA195 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