Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N4005L is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 14, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 443
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4AFB3 (octal 51127663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 14, 2015
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01177806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lynch James D JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 197 Durango Rd Unit 5A
Destin, FL 32541-3080
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4005L, 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 Lynch James D JR, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 14, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 443 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4005L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S-2R (serial 2483R, cancelled April 13, 2005); Cessna 421 (serial 421-0005, cancelled February 13, 1974). 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 N4005L. 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