Kennedy H F AX8
N477KY is a Kennedy H F AX8, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kennedy H F
- Model
- AX8
- Serial number
- HAB3
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A5DC13 (octal 51356023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00365112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chando Patrick M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5101 Alberta Ln NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120-2301
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N477KY, 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 Chando Patrick M, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 27, 2001, 4 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HAB3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N477KY 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 N477KY. 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