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N800NS

Head Balloons AX8-105

N800NS is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Xts Aerospace INC, a corporation in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons
Model
AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
Serial number
420
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2012
Transponder code
AAE31A (octal 52561432)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 16, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 16, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 8, 2012
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01095062

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Xts Aerospace INC
Type
Corporation
Address
535 Edinboro Dr
Southern Pines, NC 28387-7418

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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 N800NS, 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 Xts Aerospace INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 16, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 8, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N800NS 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 N800NS. 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