Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N4008S is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pilot Properties Of The Hudson Valley LLC, an LLC in Lagrangeville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 4, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 422
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A4B022 (octal 51130042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 4, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01110187
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pilot Properties Of The Hudson Valley LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10 Woods End Rd
Lagrangeville, NY 12540-5912
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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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4008S, 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 Pilot Properties Of The Hudson Valley LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 4, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 422 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4008S was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 560XL (serial 560-5540, cancelled December 20, 2005); Ayres Corporation S2R-T15 (serial T15002, cancelled August 4, 1993); Sikorsky S-65C3 (serial 65-394, cancelled April 14, 1975). 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 N4008S: Accident on October 5, 1991 at Cordell, OK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R-T15 · operated under 137
INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR WAS THAT THE AIRCRAFT WEIGHT AND BALANCE LIMITATIONS WERE EXCEEDED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92DPJ01 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