Born Gary V HOFNAR
N450BH is a Born Gary V HOFNAR, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 21, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Born Gary V
- Model
- HOFNAR
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5723D (octal 51271075)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 21, 1995
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00725502
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dougherty Donald A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4970 Squirreltail Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80920-7627
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N450BH, 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 Dougherty Donald A, an individual, certificate issued May 26, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N450BH according to the deregistered file. [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 N450BH. 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