Fricke B/Cuneo P RX-8
N900FC is a Fricke B/Cuneo P RX-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 3, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fricke B/Cuneo P
- Model
- RX-8
- Serial number
- 101-90
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AC6FAC (octal 53067654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 3, 2021
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00391429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fricke Barbara A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1209 Florida St NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-6801 - Co-owners
- Cuneo Peter J
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N900FC, 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 Fricke Barbara A, a co-owned, certificate issued October 16, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 2021, 14 years after the 2007 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101-90 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N900FC according to the deregistered file. [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]
1 NTSB record under N900FC: Accident on August 15, 2020 at Albuquerque, NM: serious injuries. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerostar International RX 8 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain the proper descent rate during the balloon’s approach to a high-wind landing, which resulted in a hard landing and serious passenger injury.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data