Head Balloons AX8-105
N5008M is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air Hound Adventures LLC, an LLC in Davenport, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 12, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 491
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A63D6C (octal 51436554)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 12, 2021
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01342638
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Hound Adventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 112 Whirlaway Dr
Davenport, FL 33837-3650
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 3
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The public federal record on N5008M, 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 Air Hound Adventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 21, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated July 12, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 491 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5008M was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-76C (serial 760537, cancelled December 5, 2003); Hughes TH-55A (serial 6715389, cancelled July 26, 1989); Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 10308, cancelled May 31, 1950). 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 N5008M. 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