Avian Balloon SKYHAWK
N50288 is an Avian Balloon SKYHAWK, a balloon with no engine, built in 1993. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Avian Balloon CO, a corporation in Spokane Valley, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 1993 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 17, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Avian Balloon
- Model
- SKYHAWK · all SKYHAWKs and related versions
- Serial number
- 179
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A644EF (octal 51442357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 1993
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · September 17, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00194512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avian Balloon CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8023 E South Riverway Ave
Spokane Valley, WA 99212-1851
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N50288, 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 Avian Balloon CO, a corporation, certificate issued September 10, 1993, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 17, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50288 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206F (serial U20601914, cancelled March 21, 1989). 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 N50288. 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 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