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N3080A

Head Balloons Inc AX9-118

Valid New York

N3080A is a Head Balloons Inc AX9-118, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Jamestown, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 20, 2002. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX9-118 · all AX9-118s and related versions
Serial number
314
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A33F63 (octal 50637543)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 2, 2002
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · August 20, 2002
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00008409

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mccann Craig S
Type
Individual
Address
119 Maple St
Jamestown, NY 14701-7070

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 1

2026-09-22Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 2

1994-02-14Beech V35A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1961-03-02Cessna 170B · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3080A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mccann Craig S, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2002, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 20, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3080A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech V35A (serial D9060, cancelled February 14, 1994); Cessna 170B (serial 25724, cancelled March 2, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3080A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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