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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Philip E Clinger PEC77K
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Philip E Clinger
- Model
- PEC77K
- Serial number
- 1001
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A63E37 (octal 51437067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 20, 2019
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01298353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Endeavors LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N501FU links to the rest of the register
- Philip E Clinger 1 aircraft on the register
- Aviation Endeavors LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Battle Creek, MI 108 aircraft registered in this town
- Battle Creek Executive AT Kellogg Field · BTL
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
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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.
Valid registration to Aviation Endeavors LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated August 20, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N501FU according to the deregistered file. [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 N501FU. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data