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N5W

Piccard AX-5

Valid Minnesota

N5W is a Piccard AX-5, a balloon with no engine, built in 1967. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Piccard
Model
AX-5
Serial number
18
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A63732 (octal 51433462)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 25, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 1982
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00540865

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eckmeier Charles D
Type
Individual
Address
5008 Harriet Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55419

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 1

1931-11-01Gliders Inc PT GLIDER NO 1 · Valid registration

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