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N9001C

Head Balloons Inc AX8-88

N9001C is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 6, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX8-88 · all AX8-88s and related versions
Serial number
505
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2022
Transponder code
AC71AA (octal 53070652)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 19, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 6, 2022
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01363660

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Converse Karen E
Type
Individual
Address
7737 Robin Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-5535

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-03-11Cessna 180 · Sale reported, canceled

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9001C, 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 Converse Karen E, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 6, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 505 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9001C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 31049, cancelled March 11, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9001C. 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