Head Balloons Inc AX7 77B
N4001M is a Head Balloons Inc AX7 77B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sautee, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX7 77B · all AX7 77Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 424
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A4AF28 (octal 51127450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 23, 2013
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01125624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bristol David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 323
Sautee, GA 30571-0323
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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 N4001M, 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 Bristol David W, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 23, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 424 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4001M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 (serial 6001, cancelled February 18, 1997). 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 N4001M: Accident on October 17, 1990 at El Centro, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Ayres S2RT-T34 · operated under 137
COLLISION WITH A GROUND OBJECT AFTER THE PILOT SUCCESSFULLY MADE A NIGHT TIME EMERGENCY LANDING AFTER EXPERIENCING AN ENGINE POWER INTERRUPTION FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91DUM02 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data