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N5026H

Avian Balloon SKYHAWK

Valid Texas

N5026H is an Avian Balloon SKYHAWK, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Belton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Avian Balloon
Model
SKYHAWK · all SKYHAWKs and related versions
Serial number
174
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A64490 (octal 51442220)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 18, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 13, 1993
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00854352

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coats Autumn H
Type
Individual
Address
3504 Spinnaker Ln
Belton, TX 76513-2591

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 2

1989-03-21Bellanca 7GCBC · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1964-10-23Piper PA-11 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5026H, 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 Coats Autumn H, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5026H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 7GCBC (serial 105978, cancelled March 21, 1989); Piper PA-11 (serial 11-906, cancelled October 23, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5026H: Accident on May 30, 1986 at E. Grand Forks, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI86FA146Accident on May 30, 1986 at E. Grand Forks, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1059-78

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI86FA146 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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