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N89BK

Trieber Steven M BK 310-1

Valid Maine

N89BK is a Trieber Steven M BK 310-1, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Eastport, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 1989 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 12, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Trieber Steven M
Model
BK 310-1
Serial number
BK 310-11
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1989
Transponder code
AC431E (octal 53041436)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 13, 1989
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 12, 1989
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00464711

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Trieber Steven M
Type
Individual
Address
239 Water St
Eastport, ME 04631-1028

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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 N89BK, 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 Trieber Steven M, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 1989, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 12, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BK 310-11 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N89BK 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 N89BK. 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