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N9704

Head Balloons Inc AX7-70R

Valid Colorado

N9704 is a Head Balloons Inc AX7-70R, a balloon with no engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Castle Rock, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 14, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX7-70R · all AX7-70Rs and related versions
Serial number
468
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Transponder code
AD8689 (octal 53303211)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 30, 2019
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition; Racing · March 14, 2019
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01294273

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Liberti Chris M
Type
Individual
Address
2946 Dragonfly Ct
Castle Rock, CO 80109-8660

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

1996-08-19Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A · exported to Dominican Republic · Valid registration
1971-06-23S N I A S SA 318C ALOUETTE AST · exported to Indonesia · Valid registration
1929-04-25Moth 60-GM · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9704, 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 Liberti Chris M, an individual, certificate issued May 30, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing, dated March 14, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 468 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9704 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1216, cancelled August 19, 1996); S N I A S SA 318C ALOUETTE AST (serial 2200, cancelled June 23, 1971); Moth 60-GM (serial 814, cancelled April 25, 1929). 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 N9704. 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