Head Balloons Inc AX9-118
N5008Z is a Head Balloons Inc AX9-118, a balloon with no engine, built in 2018. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Seffner, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 28, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX9-118 · all AX9-118s and related versions
- Serial number
- 467
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A63D78 (octal 51436570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 28, 2018
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01285742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peterson Kurt Alan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1013 Auburn Ln
Seffner, FL 33584-4201
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5008Z, 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 Peterson Kurt Alan, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 28, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 467 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5008Z was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Blumenthal Ken MODEL II (serial 314, cancelled July 10, 2007); Air Tractor Inc AT-502B (serial 502B-0434, cancelled September 28, 2000); Piper PA-22-108 (serial 22-8619, cancelled August 14, 1963). 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 N5008Z: Accident on July 30, 1999 at Giltner, NE: 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 AT502B · operated under 137
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout, and his failure to maintain clearance from the guy wire. A factor was the guy wire.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99FA267 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