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N77UM

Ultramagic M77C

N77UM is an Ultramagic M77C, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Napa Valley Aloft INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 25, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Ultramagic
Model
M77C
Serial number
77/259
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AA687C (octal 52464174)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 29, 2026
Expires
August 31, 2033
Last FAA action
August 29, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · April 25, 2005
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00172669

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Napa Valley Aloft INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2370 Pine St
Napa, CA 94559-3115

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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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N77UM, 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 Napa Valley Aloft INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. 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 77/259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N77UM according to the deregistered file. [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 N77UM. 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