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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Head Balloons Inc AX7-77
N5010F is a Head Balloons Inc AX7-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marion, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated February 19, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX7-77 · all AX7-77s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Head Balloons Inc AX7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 482
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A64005 (octal 51440005)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 19, 2020
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01310849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Norton Cole R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1710 Marion Airport Rd
Marion, IA 52302-9626
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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 2
Connections how N5010F links to the rest of the register
- Head Balloons Inc AX7 56 registered
- Head Balloons Inc 197 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate A29SO · held by Head Balloons INC
- Marion, IA 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Marion Airport · C17
- Iowa 4,510 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Head Balloons Inc AX7 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Head Balloons Inc AX7 11 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, failed · 2001-04-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, intermittent · 1999-11-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, erratic · 1999-11-17
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The public federal record on N5010F, 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 Norton Cole R, an individual, certificate issued May 4, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated February 19, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 482 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5010F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Clayton Lawrence D T-BIRD II (serial 303101, cancelled March 10, 2010); Bell 212 (serial 30936, cancelled June 19, 2002). 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 N5010F. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data