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N72704

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Iowa

N72704 is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 29, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858 · all 858s and related versions
Serial number
114
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A9C002 (octal 52340002)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 28, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 29, 1984
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00521577

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
King Jeremy W
Type
Individual
Address
709 W 2Nd Ave
Indianola, IA 50125-2347

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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

—Cessna 140 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N72704, 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 King Jeremy W, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N72704 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9883, cancelled date not given). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N72704. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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