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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Thunder Balloons Limited AX8-90
N63RR is a Thunder Balloons Limited AX8-90, a balloon with no engine. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2000 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated March 31, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thunder Balloons Limited
- Model
- AX8-90
- Serial number
- 732
- 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
- 0
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A83CEA (octal 52036352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2000
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 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 · March 31, 1986
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00691836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dennis Sean M
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5185 Belsay Rd
Grand Blanc, MI 48439-9180 - Co-owners
- Gartland William W
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.
Connections how N63RR links to the rest of the register
- Thunder Balloons Limited 14 aircraft on the register
- Grand Blanc, MI 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N63RR.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N63RR, 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 Dennis Sean M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 11, 2000, expires February 29, 2028. 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 732 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N63RR according to the deregistered file. [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 N63RR. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data