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N70978

B Fricke / P Cuneo RX-8

N70978 is a B Fricke / P Cuneo RX-8, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 3, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
B Fricke / P Cuneo
Model
RX-8
Serial number
102-90
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
2014
Transponder code
A9796B (octal 52274553)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 2, 2014
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 3, 2021
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01165068

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fricke Barbara A
Type
Co-owned
Address
1209 Florida St NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-6801
Co-owners
Cuneo Peter J

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

2014-08-13Aerostar International Inc RX 8 · Valid registration
1953-09-16Piper J-3 · Valid registration

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