Head Balloons AX8-105
N5001Y is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Appleton, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 22, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105
- Serial number
- 478
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A63C82 (octal 51436202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 22, 2019
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01303402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ross John R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1721 E Midway Rd Apt 7
Appleton, WI 54915-5601
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
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The public federal record on N5001Y, 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 Ross John R, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 22, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 478 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5001Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-2001, cancelled January 18, 1978). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5001Y. 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