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N881MD

Michael P Depew A69

N881MD is a Michael P Depew A69, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 20, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Michael P Depew
Model
A69
Serial number
001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2022
Transponder code
AC22A3 (octal 53021243)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 12, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 28, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 20, 2023
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01337184

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Depew Michael P
Type
Individual
Address
405 Brook Meadow Dr
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050-3206

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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 N881MD, 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 Depew Michael P, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 20, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N881MD 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 N881MD. 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