Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N4522E is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Natchez, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 183
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A57C2D (octal 51276055)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- November 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00793902
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trippe Christopher P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 111 Willow Ct
Natchez, MS 39120-4814
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4522E, 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 Trippe Christopher P, an individual, certificate issued November 5, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 183 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4522E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Champion 7DC (serial 7DC-130, cancelled May 15, 1974); Gulfstream American Corp AA-5B (serial AA5B1082, 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]
3 NTSB records under N4522E: Accident on July 24, 2023 at Guilford, CT: serious injuries. Accident on July 5, 2002 at Victor, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 13, 1982 at Brookville, OH: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Head Balloons INC AX8-88 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate supervision of the boarding process and the ground crewmember’s failure to immediately let go of the balloon after it began an inadvertent climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA315 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Head Balloons, Inc. AX8-88 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain altitude/clearance from the power lines during the landing resulting in the balloon's impacting the wires. Contributing factors were the power lines and strong winds existent at the time.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA02LA122 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman AA5 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA164 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