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N126TC

Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX8-90 S 2

N126TC is a Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer AX8-90 S 2, a balloon with no engine, built in 1991. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Meridian, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 14, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer
Model
AX8-90 S 2
Serial number
1880USA
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
5
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A06BA8 (octal 50065650)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 23, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 27, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 14, 1991
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00365221

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eakes Benjamin V
Type
Individual
Address
8763 Ernest White Rd
Meridian, MS 39305-9102

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data