Piccard AX-3
N65DC is a Piccard AX-3, a balloon with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Centennial, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 1979 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 26, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piccard
- Model
- AX-3
- Serial number
- 794
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A88AAF (octal 52105257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 1979
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · July 26, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00462476
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lester David J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2221 E Arapahoe Rd # 3388
Centennial, CO 80122-1505
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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 N65DC, 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 Lester David J, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 1979, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated July 26, 1979, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 794 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N65DC 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 N65DC. 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