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N4014R

Head Balloons AX8-105

Valid Iowa

N4014R is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Corridor Balloon CO, a corporation in Walford, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 12, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons
Model
AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
Serial number
421
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2012
Transponder code
A4B34C (octal 51131514)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 28, 2017
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 12, 2012
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01098779

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Corridor Balloon CO
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 322
Walford, IA 52351-0322

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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 2

2005-05-06Trainor Hugh M SMITH MINI PL DSA-1 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1998-10-21Cameron Balloons U S N 120 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4014R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Corridor Balloon CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 28, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 12, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4014R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Trainor Hugh M SMITH MINI PL DSA-1 (serial 1, cancelled May 6, 2005); Cameron Balloons U S N 120 (serial 5689, cancelled October 21, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4014R: Accident on May 21, 1991 at Overland Park, KS: serious injuries. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI91LA174Accident on May 21, 1991 at Overland Park, KS: serious injuries.serial on NTSB record: 5689

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cameron N120 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE DURING AN APPROACH FOR LANDING.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA174 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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