Head Balloons AX8-105
N9002L is a Head Balloons AX8-105, a balloon with no engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Florence, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated April 19, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Head Balloons
- Model
- AX8-105 · all AX8-105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 511
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- AC71D5 (octal 53070725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · April 19, 2020
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01393061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lafountain Donald A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 82 Bliss St
Florence, MA 01062-2606
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 3
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The public federal record on N9002L, 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 Lafountain Donald A, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated April 19, 2020, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 511 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9002L was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Balloon Works FIREFLY 8B (serial F8B-160, cancelled June 5, 2013); Champion 7GCBC (serial 24270, cancelled April 26, 1972); Aerospatiale SA341G GAZELLE (serial 1491, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9002L. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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