Avian Balloon SKYHAWK
N996BG is an Avian Balloon SKYHAWK, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 1990 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 15, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Avian Balloon
- Model
- SKYHAWK · all SKYHAWKs and related versions
- Serial number
- 64
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADE90D (octal 53364415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 1990
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 15, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00073270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gerber Mark W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2500 Laurel Rd
Gibsonia, PA 15044-8399
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N996BG, 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 Gerber Mark W, an individual, certificate issued October 30, 1990, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N996BG 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N996BG. 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 September 30, 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