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N869RS

Andrew Richardson NEW HORIZON SD

Valid New York

N869RS is an Andrew Richardson NEW HORIZON SD, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Magee Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 9, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Andrew Richardson
Model
NEW HORIZON SD
Serial number
002
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
ABF1CE (octal 52770716)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 28, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · July 9, 2019
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01295056

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Magee Aviation Services LLC
Type
LLC
Address
595 Culver Pkwy
Rochester, NY 14609-4563

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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

2013-12-20Beechcraft Corp B300 · exported to Saudi Arabia · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N869RS, 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 Magee Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated July 9, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N869RS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beechcraft Corp B300 (serial FL-869, cancelled December 20, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N869RS. 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