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N828EM

Mourning Samuel L DARWIN SPECIAL

Valid Michigan

N828EM is a Mourning Samuel L DARWIN SPECIAL, a balloon with no engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mason, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 14, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Mourning Samuel L
Model
DARWIN SPECIAL
Serial number
001
Type
Balloon
Power
None
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB4F03 (octal 52647403)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 20, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 14, 2009
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01019909

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kerr Robert C
Type
Individual
Address
1601 S College Rd
Mason, MI 48854-9712

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