{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-09-03","airworthiness_ops":"Balloon","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2005-04-19","city":"WESTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"balloons","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Head Balloons Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HEAD BALLOONS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4280200","mode_s_code":"52655645","mode_s_hex":"AB5BA5","model":"AX8-88","n_number":"N83068","name":"PASSWATER JOHN M","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N83068 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Weston, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated September 3, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Passwater John M, an individual, certificate issued April 19, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for balloon, dated September 3, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 273 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N83068 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-1724, cancelled February 16, 1971). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N83068. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"273","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1121 HIDDEN VALLEY WAY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Balloon","type_aircraft_code":"2","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00626022","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N83068","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"333271819"}