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N7162P

Dieringer Nathan W BARD77

Valid Wisconsin

N7162P is a Dieringer Nathan W BARD77, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Dieringer Nathan W
Model
BARD77
Serial number
031848
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A99503 (octal 52312403)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 8, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 8, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 15, 2023
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01400147

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Belgarde Sonja
Type
Individual
Address
1501 Crystal Ln
Sun Prairie, WI 53590-1844

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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

1990-07-16Piper PA-24-250 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N7162P, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Belgarde Sonja, an individual, certificate issued January 8, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 031848 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7162P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 242328, cancelled July 16, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7162P: Accident on July 28, 1989 at True, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

BFO89FA063Accident on July 28, 1989 at True, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 24-2328

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-250 · operated under 091

THE PILOTS FAILURE TO PROPERLY MONITOR THE FUEL SUPPLY WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL STARVATION. THE AIRCRAFT STALLED AS THE PILOT PERFORMED AN EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID THE MOUNTAIN TOP.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89FA063 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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