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N826SB

Thunder Balloons Limited AX7-77Z

Valid Arizona

N826SB is a Thunder Balloons Limited AX7-77Z, a balloon with no engine, built in 1986. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 5, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Thunder Balloons Limited
Model
AX7-77Z · all AX7-77Zs and related versions
Serial number
826
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
4
Year built
1986
Transponder code
AB48B7 (octal 52644267)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 22, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 5, 1986
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00371007

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Davalos Gary R
Type
Individual
Address
1113 W Runion Dr
Phoenix, AZ 85027-3651

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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 N826SB, 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 Davalos Gary R, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 5, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N826SB 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 N826SB. 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