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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Andrew Richardson NEW HORIZON FF
N869US is an Andrew Richardson NEW HORIZON FF, 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 June 27, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Andrew Richardson
- Model
- NEW HORIZON FF
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- ABF219 (octal 52771031)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 27, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01295055
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Magee Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N869US links to the rest of the register
- Andrew Richardson 3 aircraft on the register
- Magee Aviation Services LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Rochester, NY 176 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International · ROC
- New York 6,669 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Inverter, inoperative · 2001-02-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Relay, failed · 2000-10-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Girt Bar, damaged · 2000-03-25
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The public federal record on N869US, 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 Magee Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated June 27, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N869US was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fokker F.28 MK 0100 (serial 11314, cancelled July 9, 2003). 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 N869US. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data