Head Balloons AX8-105
N45124 is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 1992 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated October 17, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 182
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A5788E (octal 51274216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 1992
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · October 17, 1991
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00353662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vaughn Charles M DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2548 Parental Home Rd
Jacksonville, FL 32216 - Co-owners
- Balloon Man
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N45124, 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 Vaughn Charles M DBA, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 1992, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated October 17, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45124 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076742, cancelled date not given). 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 N45124: Accident on July 20, 1993 at Jacksonville, FL: serious injuries. 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: Head Balloons, Inc. AX8-105 · operated under 091
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- 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