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N9005Q

National Ballooning Ltd 858

Valid Iowa

N9005Q is a National Ballooning Ltd 858, a balloon with no engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bondurant, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated January 21, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
National Ballooning Ltd
Model
858
Serial number
151
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
2005
Transponder code
AC7242 (octal 53071102)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 10, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Balloon · January 21, 2005
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00140299

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mains Andrew C
Type
Co-owned
Address
208 Aspen Dr NE
Bondurant, IA 50035-2203
Co-owners
Mains Jennifer

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 3

1998-02-23Balloon Works FIREFLY 8-24 · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1970-07-02Beech A36 · exported to Japan · Valid registration
—Aerospatiale SA315B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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