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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N990EF

Evan E Ford HOPPER 2EF

Valid New York

N990EF is an Evan E Ford HOPPER 2EF, a balloon with no engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Binghamton, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Evan E Ford
Model
HOPPER 2EF
Serial number
EF-2014-1
Type
Balloon
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
2014
Transponder code
ADD30D (octal 53351415)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 7, 2025
Expires
March 31, 2032
Last FAA action
March 7, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01148579

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Berka Joel M
Type
Individual
Address
140 Krager Rd
Binghamton, NY 13904-1155

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