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N5HJ

Wilson FLYING FARCE-1

N5HJ is a Wilson FLYING FARCE-1, a balloon with no engine, built in 1977. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 1977 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 25, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Wilson
Model
FLYING FARCE-1
Serial number
001
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
85 mph
Transponder code
A635F6 (octal 51432766)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 26, 1977
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 25, 1977
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00170845

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wilson Mark R
Type
Individual
Address
1406 Bluebell Place NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122

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