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N878UP

Trappe Jonathan R CARL FREDRECKSENS

Valid Texas

N878UP is a Trappe Jonathan R CARL FREDRECKSENS, a balloon with no engine, built in 2009. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 22, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Trappe Jonathan R
Model
CARL FREDRECKSENS
Serial number
A-113
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2009
Transponder code
AC15DE (octal 53012736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 29, 2009
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
February 25, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · July 22, 2013
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01035455

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Trappe Jonathan R
Type
Individual
Address
555 E 5Th St Apt 721
Austin, TX 78701-3897

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N878UP, 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 Trappe Jonathan R, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2009, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 22, 2013, 4 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-113 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N878UP 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 N878UP. 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