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N3089E

Head Balloons Inc AX7 77B

Valid Alabama

N3089E is a Head Balloons Inc AX7 77B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 25, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX7 77B · all AX7 77Bs and related versions
Serial number
263
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A340A2 (octal 50640242)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 22, 2016
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · March 25, 1998
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00006901

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rauseo Steven B
Type
Individual
Address
3516 Wildwood Dr SE
Huntsville, AL 35801-1159

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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 2

1993-10-15Cessna 172N · exported to Cyprus · Valid registration
1950-10-23Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3089E, 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 Rauseo Steven B, an individual, certificate issued January 22, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 25, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3089E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271438, cancelled October 15, 1993); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6678, cancelled October 23, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3089E. 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