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N32242

Head Balloons Inc AX8-88

Valid Nebraska

N32242 is a Head Balloons Inc AX8-88, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chadron, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 12, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Head Balloons Inc
Model
AX8-88
Serial number
417
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A378BD (octal 50674275)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 1, 2013
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · June 12, 2013
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01125625

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hofer John H
Type
Individual
Address
400 Egan Rd
Chadron, NE 69337-5708

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 2

1997-04-29Jordan John Edward QUICKSILVER MXL II · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
—Piper PA-28-140 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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