Head Balloons AX8-105
N2269S is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 12, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 361
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A1FAEF (octal 50375357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · January 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00324439
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martens Eric A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 706 N 14Th St
Indianola, IA 50125-1566
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2269S, 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 Martens Eric A, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated January 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 361 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2269S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17280955, cancelled September 24, 2001); North American-Medore SNJ-4 (serial 8812619, cancelled June 25, 1997). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2269S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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