Head Balloons AX8-105
N2405E 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 Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 2, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 367
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A2330B (octal 50431413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 2, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00354029
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dougherty Donald A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4970 Squirreltail Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-7627
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 N2405E, 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 Dougherty Donald A, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 2, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 367 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2405E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182R (serial 18268201, cancelled January 16, 2002); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5984, cancelled September 16, 1949). 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 N2405E: Accident on August 17, 2001 at Winder, GA: serious 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: Cessna 182R · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to fatigue failure of the number two piston immediately after takeoff, resulting in collision with trees and the terrain during an emergency descent.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA01LA218 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