{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1988-11-10","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"EL MIRAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-13","maker":"Head Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280200","mode_s_code":"51277665","mode_s_hex":"A57FB5","model":"AX8-88","n_number":"N45303","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Jackson","damage":"MINR","date":"2020-08-03","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR20CA262","probable_cause":"The balloon pilot\u2019s inability to maintain altitude during un-forecasted weather, which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N45303","state":"WY","summary":"Accident on August 3, 2020 at Jackson, WY: serious injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45303 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in El Mirage, Arizona. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 10, 1988.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 154 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N45303 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 (serial 2874, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N45303: Accident on August 3, 2020 at Jackson, WY: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"154","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"14501 N 128TH DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00824381","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45303","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"853355344"}