Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N31187 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Slocomb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 5, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 326
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A34E18 (octal 50647030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 5, 2003
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00059059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Albertson James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3385 Coe Rd
Slocomb, AL 36375-4010
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N31187, 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 Albertson James M, an individual, certificate issued October 29, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 326 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31187 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Myers Ralph David AVID FLYER D (serial 767, cancelled July 28, 1993); Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B (serial 10B, cancelled date not given). 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 N31187: Accident on April 18, 1993 at Winnsboro, SC: no 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: Myers AVID AIRCRAFT FLYER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain the airspeed above the stall speed, during the forced landing. A factor was the undetermined engine malfunction.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL93LA077 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