Head Balloons Inc AX8-88
N45303 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in El Mirage, Arizona. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 10, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 154
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A57FB5 (octal 51277665)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 10, 1988
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00824381
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 14501 N 128Th Dr
El Mirage, AZ 85335-5344
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 · 3 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N45303, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 154 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45303 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 (serial 2874, 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 N45303: Accident on August 3, 2020 at Jackson, WY: serious injuries, minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Head AX8 88 · operated under 091
The balloon pilot’s inability to maintain altitude during un-forecasted weather, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR20CA262 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