Head Balloons AX8-105
N3122D is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntertown, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2006 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 315
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A350E1 (octal 50650341)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2006
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 8, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00000289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoffman Benjamin D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2606 Chapman Rd
Huntertown, IN 46748-9429
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3122D, 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 Hoffman Benjamin D, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 2006, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 8, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 315 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3122D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 31920, cancelled August 29, 1955). 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 N3122D. 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