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N72718

National Ballooning Ltd 755-12

N72718 is a National Ballooning Ltd 755-12, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 31, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
755-12
Serial number
55121
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1989
Transponder code
A9C029 (octal 52340051)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 30, 2001
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · May 31, 1989
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00644671

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcfadden Joseph M
Type
Individual
Address
705 Hydra Rd SE
Rio Rancho, NM 87124-2813

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

1951-05-02Cessna 140 · Valid registration

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