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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 7
N5242C is a Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 7, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 1987 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 17, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Galaxy Balloons Inc
- Model
- GALAXY 7 · all GALAXY 7s and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- GLX-1147
- 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
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A69A6B (octal 51515153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 1987
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 17, 1987
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00025450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Conrad Kenneth J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10309 Malaguena Ln NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N5242C links to the rest of the register
- Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 7 15 registered
- Galaxy Balloons Inc 23 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Albuquerque, NM 1,180 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 7 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 7 9 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N5242C, 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 Conrad Kenneth J, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 1987, expires April 30, 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 GLX-1147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5242C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T210N (serial 21063724, cancelled December 15, 1979); Beech B35 (serial D2634, cancelled May 22, 1965). 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 N5242C. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data