Head Balloons Inc AX9-118
N5003E is a Head Balloons Inc AX9-118, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Flying Circus INC, a corporation in Custer, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. 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
- AX9-118 · all AX9-118s and related versions
- Serial number
- 474
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A63CB6 (octal 51436266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01301405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Circus INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 210
Custer, SD 57730-0210
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 4
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5003E, 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 Flying Circus INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. 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 474 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5003E was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-602 (serial 602-0397, cancelled May 16, 2008); Sikorsky S-70A-18 (serial 701714, cancelled May 24, 1993); Aero Commander 680FL (serial 1747-144, cancelled November 9, 1984). 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 N5003E: Accident on April 15, 2006 at Meridian, MS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Air Tractor AT-602 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from trees. Contributing factors were the drug impairment and low maneuvering altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06LA103 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