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N90027

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Iowa

N90027 is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milo, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 25, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858 · all 858s and related versions
Serial number
144
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC71EA (octal 53070752)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 2, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 2, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · September 25, 2002
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00004619

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Davis Jason Russell
Type
Individual
Address
515 Belmont St
Milo, IA 50166-1038

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 4

1998-03-18Bell 206B · exported to Brazil · Valid registration
1979-02-16Aerospatiale SA315B · exported to Hong Kong · Valid registration
1975-10-31Bell 205A-1 · exported to Brazil · Valid registration
1949-05-27Cessna 140 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N90027, 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 Davis Jason Russell, an individual, certificate issued June 2, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 144 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N90027 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 4468, cancelled March 18, 1998); Aerospatiale SA315B (serial 2532, cancelled February 16, 1979); Bell 205A-1 (serial 30179, cancelled October 31, 1975). 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 N90027. 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