Head Balloons Inc AX7-77
N8191J is a Head Balloons Inc AX7-77, a balloon with no engine, built in 1995. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianola, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 7, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons Inc
- Model
- AX7-77 · all AX7-77s and related versions
- Serial number
- 227
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AB2D4F (octal 52626517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 7, 1995
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00585292
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cloyd Patrick T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15196 Newbold St
Indianola, IA 50125-8235
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8191J, 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 Cloyd Patrick T, an individual, certificate issued June 21, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 7, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8191J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206A (serial 569, cancelled January 9, 1974). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8191J: Accident on August 1, 1988 at Laurens, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-34-200T · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL88LA223 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data