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N4514L

Head Balloons Inc AX7 77B

Valid Georgia

N4514L is a Head Balloons Inc AX7 77B, a balloon with no engine, built in 1990. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sautee, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 27, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX7 77B · all AX7 77Bs and related versions
Serial number
163
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1990
Transponder code
A578C2 (octal 51274302)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 2, 2017
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
September 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · February 27, 1990
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00124821

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bristol David W
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 323
Sautee, GA 30571-0323

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4514L, 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 Bristol David W, an individual, certificate issued October 2, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 27, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4514L according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4514L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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