Avian Balloon SKYHAWK
N5033L is an Avian Balloon SKYHAWK, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 27, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Avian Balloon
- Model
- SKYHAWK · all SKYHAWKs and related versions
- Serial number
- 188
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A647E1 (octal 51443741)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 27, 1995
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00455372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hinchcliff Raymond E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4853 14Th St SW
Canton, OH 44710-1146
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5033L, 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 Hinchcliff Raymond E, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5033L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lake LA-4-200 (serial 490, cancelled February 14, 1990). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5033L: Accident on July 16, 1988 at Candlewood Lake, CT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lake LA-4-200 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA182 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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