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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Michael 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Michael P Depew
- Model
- A69
- 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 · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- AC22A3 (octal 53021243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 28, 2025
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 20, 2023
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01337184
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Depew Michael P
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N881MD links to the rest of the register
- Michael P Depew 1 aircraft on the register
- Mechanicsburg, PA 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N881MD.json.
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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.
Valid registration to Depew Michael P, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 20, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N881MD according to the deregistered file. [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 N881MD. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data