Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B
N40097 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 20, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88B · all AX8-88Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 446
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4B054 (octal 51130124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · March 20, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01175492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vesely Scott
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7842 Whitehart St
Frisco, TX 75035-3162
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40097, 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 Vesely Scott, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated March 20, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40097 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Thrush Aircraft Inc S2RHG-T65 (serial T65HG-011, cancelled January 22, 2008); Wilson JUNGSTER IV (serial 4, cancelled August 21, 2001). 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 N40097: Accident on May 19, 2007 at Tyndall, SD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Thrush Aircraft Inc. S2RHG-T65 · operated under 137
The pilot not maintaining altitude/clearance from a powerline while maneuvering. A factor was the low visibility associated with the thunderstorm and the powerlines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07LA147 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
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