Head Balloons AX8-105
N8308D is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated November 24, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 261
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB5BCE (octal 52655716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · November 24, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00526921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gomez Stevie T
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2924 Sierra Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-2948 - Co-owners
- Ibbotson Mark D
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N8308D, 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 Gomez Stevie T, a co-owned, certificate issued August 3, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated November 24, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8308D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288190109, cancelled date not given). 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 N8308D. 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