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N501FU

Philip E Clinger PEC77K

Valid Michigan

N501FU is a Philip E Clinger PEC77K, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aviation Endeavors LLC, an LLC in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 20, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Philip E Clinger
Model
PEC77K
Serial number
1001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A63E37 (octal 51437067)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 6, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · August 20, 2019
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01298353

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aviation Endeavors LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1255 Hunter Rdg
Battle Creek, MI 49017-9076

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N501FU, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aviation Endeavors LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 20, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N501FU according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N501FU. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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