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N9002J

Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B

N9002J is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88B, a balloon with no engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Corrales, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 6, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX8-88B · all AX8-88Bs and related versions
Serial number
525
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2025
Transponder code
AC71D3 (octal 53070723)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 8, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 8, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 6, 2025
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01486629

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Depoy Justin I
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1406
Corrales, NM 87048-1406

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

2013-08-08Piper PA-28-180 · Sale reported, canceled

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9002J, 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 Depoy Justin I, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 6, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9002J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-3027, cancelled August 8, 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9002J: Accident on June 29, 2011 at Barron, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN11LA430Accident on June 29, 2011 at Barron, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 28-3027

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091

The loss of engine power, which resulted from fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11LA430 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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