Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 8
N5347S is a Galaxy Balloons Inc GALAXY 8, a balloon with no engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated July 25, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Galaxy Balloons Inc
- Model
- GALAXY 8 · all GALAXY 8s and related versions
- Serial number
- GLX-1038
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6C2A7 (octal 51541247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · July 25, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00944952
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Litton David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4385 Taylorsville Hwy
Statesville, NC 28625-1843
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5347S, 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 Litton David B, an individual, certificate issued August 4, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. 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-1038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5347S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 337A (serial 337-0447, cancelled May 12, 1970). 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 N5347S: Accident on November 3, 1996 at Columbia, MO: serious injuries. 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: Galaxy AX8 · operated under 091
the pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing. Factors relating to the accident were: the ditch, which was encountered during the landing; and high vegetation, which covered the ditch making it not visible to the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA022 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