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Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX
N8002U is an Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX, a balloon with no engine, built in 2004. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Northern Light Balloon Expeditions, a corporation in Sedona, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 7, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Avian Balloon
- Model
- MAGNUM IX · all MAGNUM IXs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric and wickerA hot-air balloon: a coated nylon envelope, stainless-steel cables, and a wicker or aluminium basket under a propane burner. This is how the Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 216
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AAE48E (octal 52562216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · BalloonFAA certificate purpose code B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 7, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00108199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northern Light Balloon Expeditions
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 455 Dry Creek Rd
Sedona, AZ 86336-4329
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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
Connections how N8002U links to the rest of the register
- Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX 14 registered
- Avian Balloon 47 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric and wicker · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Northern Light Balloon Expeditions 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Sedona, AZ 91 aircraft registered in this town
- Sedona Airport · SEZ
- Arizona 8,423 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Avian Balloon MAGNUM IX 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N8002U, 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 Northern Light Balloon Expeditions, a corporation, certificate issued May 18, 2004, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 7, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8002U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-8-21 (serial 45279, cancelled March 29, 1978). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8002U. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data