Lykins Robert J 1635
N780RL is a Lykins Robert J 1635, a balloon with no engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Washingtn Twp, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lykins Robert J
- Model
- 1635
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AA9208 (octal 52511010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 28, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01005979
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lykins Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7600 Washburn
Washingtn Twp, MI 48094-2884
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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 N780RL, 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 Lykins Robert J, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N780RL 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 N780RL. 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