Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N3120C is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2008 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 18, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 309
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A3509A (octal 50650232)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2008
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 18, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00043986
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schwerman Roger D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7854 Walsingham Rd SE
Huntsville, AL 35802-2777
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3120C, 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 Schwerman Roger D, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2008, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 18, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3120C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 30919, cancelled March 29, 1994). 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 N3120C: Accident on September 2, 1993 at Cheyenne, WY: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 180 · operated under 091
IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISON BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRCRAFT AFTER ENCOUNTERING ADVERSE WEATHER. THE WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE RELATED FACTORS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA93FA187 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