Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B
N306E is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Knox Ohio III, a partnership in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 1, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88B · all AX8-88Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 508
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A33600 (octal 50633000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · February 1, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01381895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knox Ohio III
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 2915 San Diego Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-2910 - Co-owners
- Martindell Donald C
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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
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The public federal record on N306E, 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 Knox Ohio III, a partnership, certificate issued May 15, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 1, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 508 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N306E was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Arbc Inc Dba Lindstrand 77A (serial 5275, cancelled November 3, 2022); Eagle Balloons Corp C-7 (serial E81707, cancelled August 12, 2004); Columbia Air Liners Inc CAL 2 (serial 102, cancelled January 26, 1931). 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 N306E. 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