Born Gary V HOFNAR DUAL
N650BH is a Born Gary V HOFNAR DUAL, a balloon with no engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eastport, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 19, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Born Gary V
- Model
- HOFNAR DUAL
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A88CDB (octal 52106333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 19, 2000
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00703543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trieber Steven M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 239 Water St
Eastport, ME 04631-1028
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N650BH, 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 Trieber Steven M, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 19, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N650BH 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 N650BH. 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