Head Balloons Inc AX9-118
N4006K is a Head Balloons Inc AX9-118, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sunkiss Ballooning LLC, an LLC in Queensbury, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 1, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX9-118 · all AX9-118s and related versions
- Serial number
- 425
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A4AFD5 (octal 51127725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 1, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01125622
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunkiss Ballooning LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 31 High Pointe Dr
Queensbury, NY 12804-6217
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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 N4006K, 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 Sunkiss Ballooning LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 17, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 1, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 425 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4006K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S-2R (serial 2501R, cancelled January 6, 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 N4006K: Accident on June 14, 1996 at Oracle, AZ: minor 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 S2R · operated under 137
the pilot's improper decision to turn toward rising terrain, without releasing or jettisoning the load of fire retardant, while maneuvering at slow airspeed, which resulted in a stall/mush and collision with the terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: the proximity of rising terrain, and high density altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA230 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